njikarĩro
Kikuyu
Etymology
From gũikara (“to sit”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᶮdʑìkàɾèɾɔ̀ꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a tetrasyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun
njikarĩro class 9/10 (plural njikarĩro)
- seat (of a stool or a chair)[1]
- buttocks[1][2]
- Synonyms: ndina, itina
References
- “njikarĩro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 333. 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.