iniũrũ
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records inyürro as an equivalent of English nose in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba inyu as its equivalent[1].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inioɾo/
Noun
iniũrũ class 5 (plural maniũrũ)[2]
- nose
Holonyms
- ũthiũ
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- mũmeni ũngĩ amũrutaga mbakĩ iniũrũ
- mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ (yake) iniũrũ
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “iniũrũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 282. Oxford: Clarendon Press.