mbica
Kikuyu
Etymology
Swahili picha < English picture[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᵐbìɕá/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[2]
Noun
mbica class 9/10 (plural mbica)
- picture
- photograph
References
- “mbica” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 272. 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.
Anagrams
- cimba