mũtharaba

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili msalaba,[1] from Arabic صَلِيب (ṣalīb).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòðàɾàβáꜜ/
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)

  1. cross

References

  1. ^ “mũtharaba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020) 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
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