umulumbwana

Lala-Bisa

Etymology

Cognate with Chichewa mlumbwana (“bachelor”), Malawi Lomwe mullopwana (“man”), Lomwe mulopwana (“man”) and Chuabo mulobwana (“man”).

Noun

umulumbwana class 1 (plural abalumbwana)

  1. youth
  2. lad
  3. attendant

References

  • Arthur Cornwallis Madan (1908), Lala-Lamba Handbook: A Short Introduction to the South-Western Division of the Wisa-Lala Dialect of Northern Rhodesia with Stories and Vocabulary‎[1], Oxford Clarendon Press, page 116
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