mũbaage

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word mũbaage. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word mũbaage, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say mũbaage in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word mũbaage you have here. The definition of the word mũbaage will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofmũbaage, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Kikuyu

mũbaage

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòβaːɣɛ/
  • As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.

Noun

mũbaage class 3 (plural mĩbaage)

  1. Mauritius thorn (Biancaea decapetala, syn. Caesalpinia decapetala, C. sepiaria); native to Asia, but naturalized to Kenya for a very long time; traditionally used for hedge.[1]
    Meronym: (seeds) mbaage

References

  1. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977) The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, volume 3, London and New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 1307
  • “ibaage” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 21. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Kamau, Loice Njeri, Mbaabu, Peter Mathiu, Mbaria, James Mucunu, Gathumbi, Peter Karuri, Kiama, Stephen Gitahi (2016) “Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya”, in TANG , volume 6, number 3, →DOI, page 7
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia