mbaage
Kikuyu
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mbaage
Alternative forms
- mbage
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᵐbaːɣɛ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.
Noun
mbaage class 9/10 (plural mbaage)
- Fruit and seeds of Mauritius thorn (mũbaage); seeds were used for divination.
References
- “ibaage” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 21. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977) The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, volume 3, London and New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 1307