mbuku

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See also: mbũkũ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from English book.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mbuku class 9/10 (plural mbuku)

  1. book
    Synonym: ibuku

References

  1. ^ ibuku” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 35. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.