mũbĩngũ
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- mubingu
Etymology
Swahili mpingo (“ebony; African blackwood”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mò.βè.ᵑɡǒ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
Noun
mũbĩngũ class 3 (plural mĩbĩngũ)
- African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon)[1][2]
See also
- mwaritha
References
- “mũbĩngũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 30. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1332. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN