mbiti

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Kamba

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mbiti as an equivalent of English hyæna, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu hiti, and Swahili fisi and pisi as their equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mbiti (plural mbiti)

  1. hyena

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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