thara

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Kikuyu[edit]

thara

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

The first a is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun[edit]

thara class 9/10 (plural thara)

  1. Napier grass, elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum)[3]

Hypernyms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ “thara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Kitalyi, Aichi and David M. Miano and Sandra Mwebaze and Charles Wambugu (2005). More forage, more milk: Forage production for small-scale zero grazing systems, p. 114. RELMA Technical Handbook No. 33. Nairobi: Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA in ICRAF) / World Agroforestry Centre. →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 32.

Old High German[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Adverb[edit]

thara

  1. thither (to that place)

References[edit]

  1. Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

Tangkhul Naga[edit]

Numeral[edit]

thara

  1. ten
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