gumbi

Gullah

Alternative forms

  • 'gumbi, goombee

Etymology

From Bambara gumbi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡum.bi/

Noun

gumbi

  1. (botany) weed (especially one with medicinal uses)

References

  • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
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