ngatia
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᵑɡátiáꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including biribiri, cibũ (“chief”), gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), gĩtara, ithanwa, ithandũkũ, kĩng'aurũ, mũthigari, mũthũ, mwatũka, mbũkũ, ndigithũ, njata, rũbutu (pl. mbutu), thaburia, and so on.[1]
Noun
ngatia class 9/10 (plural ngatia)
- (Northern)[2][3] lion
- Synonym: mũrũthi
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- ngatia ciathiĩ hiti cĩeragara
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. 257.
- “ngatia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 306. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 10, 33.