emboro
Tooro
Etymology
From Common Bantu *dʊ̀bódó. Cognate with Swahili mboo, Chichewa mbólo and Zulu ū́bolo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /embôɾo/
Noun
emboro class 9 (plural emboro class 10, augmentless mboro, plural augmentless mboro)
Hypernyms
- obusura (“gentalia”)
Derived terms
- omutwe gw'emboro (“glans penis”, literally “the head of a penis”)
- ekisusu ky'emboro (“prepuce, foreskin”, literally “the (tree) bark of a penis”)
See also
References
- Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 13