mtumba
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mtumba (uncountable)
- Alternative form of mitumba
- 2009, Peter Okaalet, Bridge Builder, page 92:
- We could not afford nice sweaters for them, […] so they wore threadbare ones bought from a mtumba, second-hand, clothes stall.
- 2020, Moraa Gitaa, The Shark Attack, page 124:
- The MV Indigo was a twenty-year old[sic] former Russian-registered grain freighter, now registered as transporting sugar and mtumba clothes around the East African coast.
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mtumba (m-mi class, plural mitumba)
- bundle or bolt of cloth
- secondhand article