nyama

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Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Pronunciation

Noun

9 class ?

  1. animal
  2. meat

Kikuyu

Etymology 1

Hinde (1904) records nyama as an equivalent of English meat in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba nyamma and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba nama, and Swahili nyama as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

nyama class 9

  1. meat, flesh
Derived terms

(Proverbs)

See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

nyama class 9/10 (plural nyama)

  1. aardvark[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 38–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  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.
  4. ^ “nyama” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 340. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  5. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903], v. I, p. 455. →ISBN

Lingala

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

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  1. animal
  2. meat
  3. idiot

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

nyama class 9

  1. meat

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *nɲàmà.

Noun

nyama (n class, no plural)

  1. meat
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