mifua

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Swahili

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Etymology

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Perhaps an early Cushitic borrowing; compare Somali gub- (burn).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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mifua (m-mi class, plural only)

  1. bellows
    Synonym: mvukuto

References

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  • Klein-Arendt, Reinhard (2000) “The Iron Crafts of the Swahili from the Perspective of Historical Semantics”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 7, pages 153–204