kaiyaba
Kikuyu
 kaiyaba |  kaiyaba |
Etymology
Borrowed from English Kei apple.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaìjáβà(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
Noun
kaiyaba class 12 (plural tũiyaba)
- Kei apple (Dovyalis caffra); introduced from Southern Africa, fruit edible, also used for hedging.[2]
See also
- mũirũngi, mũkambura
References
- “kaiyaba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 193. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 210. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 22 September 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees