mũtharaba
Kikuyu
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili msalaba, from Arabic صَلِيب (ṣalīb).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòðàɾàβáꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on.
Noun
mũtharaba class 3 (plural mĩtharaba)
- cross
References
- “mũtharaba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.