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nyama

Chichewa

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nyama class 9 (plural nyama class 10)

  1. animal
  2. meat

Fanagalo

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Etymology

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From Zulu inyama, from Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

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nyama

  1. meat

Kikuyu

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FWOTD – 28 August 2022

Etymology 1

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Hinde (1904) records nyama as an equivalent of English meat in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba nyamma and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba nama, and Swahili nyama as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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nyama class 9

  1. meat, flesh
Derived terms
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(Proverbs)

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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nyama class 9/10 (plural nyama)

  1. aardvark[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 38–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  4. ^ “nyama” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 340. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  5. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903], v. I, p. 455. →ISBN

Lala (South Africa)

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

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nyama

  1. meat

Lingala

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

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nyama class 9 (plural nyama class 10, colloquial plural banyama class 2)

  1. animal
  2. meat
  3. idiot

Sango

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Noun

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nyama

  1. animal
  2. meat

Shona

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

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nyama class 9 (plural nyama class 10)

  1. meat

Swahili

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Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Democratic Republic of the Congo, non-native speaker):(file)
  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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nyama (n class, no plural)

  1. meat
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Tsonga

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

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nyama class 9

  1. meat
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