embara

Nyoro

Etymology

Borrowed from an extinct Tale South Cushitic language. Ultimately from Proto-South Cushitic *p'aara (“termite”).

Noun

embara class 9 (plural embara class 10, augmentless mbara, plural augmentless mbara)

  1. Termite mound, fly

References

  1. An Elementary Lunyoro Grammar‎[1], 1938, page 106
  2. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400‎[2], 1998, page 308
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