kahũa

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Kikuyu[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Swahili kahawa,[2] ultimately from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).

Pronunciation[edit]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun[edit]

kahũa class 12

  1. coffee,[2][3] including the plant (Coffea arabica)[1]
    mũgũnda wa kahũa ― coffee estate[2]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beentje, H.J. (1994). Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. Nairobi, Kenya: National Museum of Kenya. →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “kahũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 173. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
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