mũrarĩ
See also: murari
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòɾàɾè(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) IPA(key): /mòɾáɾè(ꜜ)/, (preceded by nĩ) IPA(key): [né móɾˈˈˈàˈˈˈɾè][1]
- As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[1]
Noun
mũrarĩ class 3 (plural mĩrarĩ)
- thatch blackened with soot or tar[2]
References
- 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.
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 234.
- Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 372. Oxford: Clarendon Press.