bembé
Saramaccan
Etymology
Probably from Kongo vémbe (“purslane”), Kimbundu m-bembe (“purslane”).[1].
Noun
bembé
- common purslane, Portulaca oleracea[2]
References
- Norval Smith (2015), “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 428
- Tinde van Andel; Sofie Ruysschaert (2011) Medicinale en rituele planten van Suriname [Medicinal and ritual plants of Suriname], Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, NCB Naturalis, page 410