mifua
Swahili
editEtymology
editPerhaps an early Cushitic borrowing; compare Somali gub- (“burn”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmifua (m-mi class, plural only)
References
edit- Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 7, pages 153–204