kĩboko
See also: kiboko
Kikuyu
Etymology
From Swahili kiboko (“hippopotamus”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kèβɔ̀kɔ̌/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[2]
- (Nyeri) IPA(key): /kèβɔ̀kɔ́/[3]
Noun
kĩboko class 7 (plural iboko)
- sjambok (a leather whip, especially made of hippopotamus' or rhinoceros' hide)[1]
See also
- mũcarica
References
- “kĩboko” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 32. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- 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.
- Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu", p. 61. In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.
- Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu", pp. 8, 10. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22.