uvumbi

Swahili

Other scripts
Ajami وُفُبِ

Etymology

From u- and the same root as vumbi.

Pronunciation

  • (Unguja standard) IPA(key): /uˈvu.ᵐbi/

Noun

uvumbi class XI (no plural)

  1. dust
    • 19th century, Abu Bakr bin Mwengo, Utenzi wa Wadi Isban‎[1], translation from Jan Knappert (1979) Four Centuries of Swahili Verse, →ISBN, stanza 147:
      وُفُبِ وُكِفُوَ،كَمَ كِنِدَ كَيُوَ،
      Uvumbi ukifuua / kama kwenenda kwa-yua
      The dust-cloud [which he raised] raced past, and it was as if the sun set,
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