mũtharaba

Kikuyu

Etymology

Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒁇 (ṣalāpu)bor.
Aramaic צְלִיבָא (ṣəlīḇā)bor.
Arabic صَلِيب (ṣalīb)bor.
Swahili msalababor.
Kikuyu mũtharaba

    Borrowed from Swahili msalaba.[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /mòðàɾàβáꜜ/
    As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on.

    Noun

    mũtharaba class 3 (plural mĩtharaba)

    1. cross

    References

    1. ^ “mũtharaba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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