mũkarara

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Kikuyu

mũkarara

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòkàɾàɾà(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.

Noun

mũkarara class 3 (plural mĩkarara)

  1. Margaritaria discoidea[1] (syn. Phyllanthus discoideus[2]), a deciduous tree of the family Phyllanthaceae (formerly Euphorbiaceae); traditionally used for making planks (mĩhĩrĩgo).[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1320. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
  2. ^ “mũkarara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 210. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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