namba
English
Noun
namba (plural nambas)
- A penis sheath worn by tribesmen in parts of the Pacific.
Anagrams
- amban, nabam
Kikuyu
Etymology
Borrowed from English number.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nàᵐbá/
- 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, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[2]
Noun
namba class 9/10 (plural namba)
- number
References
- “namba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 278. 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.
Swahili
Noun
namba (n class, plural namba)
- Alternative form of nambari
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English number.
Noun
namba
- number
Particle
namba
- Used to make a cardinal number into an ordinal number
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:5:
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Usage notes
When converted to the ordinal form, namba comes after the noun and is followed by the number.
Derived terms
- namba wan
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