thambara
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ðàᵐbáɾá/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩhengere, kĩariũngũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bangiri, mũhĩrĩga, thakame, and so on.[1]
Noun
thambara class 9/10 (plural thambara)
- leech
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.
- “thambara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 491. Oxford: Clarendon Press.