ngũbia
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- ngobia
Etymology
Swahili kofia (“a kind of hat”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᵑɡòβíjǎꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) IPA(key): /ᵑɡòβíjáꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, as ngũbiya, 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.[2]
Noun
ngũbia class 9/10 (plural ngũbia)
- cap, hat[1][3]
- tilde (̃); a diacritical mark over vowel letter such as ĩ or ũ.[1]
References
- “ngũbia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 316. 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.
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 12, 34.