mbũri
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records mburri as an equivalent of English goat in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbuii and Swahili mbuzi as its equivalents[1].
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mbori class which includes ikinya (pl. makinya), itimũ, kĩhaato, maguta, mbembe, mũgeka, mũrata, nyaga, ũhoro, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ, Kamau (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[3]
Noun
mbũri class 9/10 (plural mbũri)
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- irio hĩu itiumaga mbũri
- kĩrĩro kĩa mbũri nĩ ndara
- mbũri ti marigũ
- mbũri ya mai ndĩremaga
- mbũri ya ngĩa yaringĩrĩra no ũguo bata ũringagĩrĩra
- mbũri ya rwagatha ndĩkiraga
- mbũri yene mũitha nĩ gũtũ
- mũndũ ũtarĩ mbũri ndendaga nyama
- nyama ya mbũri ndiunagwo na iru
- rũgendo rwa njũa na rwa mbũri ititwaranaga
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 31.