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Kikuyu
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili msalaba,[1] from Arabic صَلِيب (ṣalīb).[2]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on.
Noun
mũtharaba class 3 (plural mĩtharaba)
- cross
References
- ^ “mũtharaba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 180 Nr. 1601