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mũbaage

Kikuyu

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mũbaage

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mòβaːɣɛ/
  • As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.

Noun

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mũbaage class 3 (plural mĩbaage)

  1. Mauritius thorn (Biancaea decapetala, syn. Caesalpinia decapetala, C. sepiaria); native to Asia, but naturalized to Kenya for a very long time; traditionally used for hedge.[1]
    Meronym: (seeds) mbaage

References

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  1. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977) The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, volume 3, London and New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 1307
  • “ibaage” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 21. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Kamau, Loice Njeri, Mbaabu, Peter Mathiu, Mbaria, James Mucunu, Gathumbi, Peter Karuri, Kiama, Stephen Gitahi (2016) “Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya”, in TANG [HUMANITAS MEDICINE], volume 6, number 3, →DOI, page 7
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