biribiri

See also: biri-biri

Japanese

Romanization

biribiri

  1. Rōmaji transcription of びりびり.
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ビリビリ.

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili pilipili, from Persian پلپل‎ (pelpel), ultimately from Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali).[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 12 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with ndarubiini, and so on.

  • (Kiambu) IPA(key): /βìɾìβíɾíꜜ/
  • (Nyeri) IPA(key): /βìɾìβìɾìꜜ/[4]
The same underlying pattern as that of mũgũrũki.[5]
  • (Ndia) IPA(key): /βìɾìβìɾì/
The same underlying pattern as that of mũgũrũki.[5]

Noun

biribiri class 9/10 (plural biribiri)

  1. red pepper, hot pepper, chili pepper

References
  1. “biribiri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 29. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 1–20.
  3. 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.
  4. Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu." In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.
  5. Kagaya, Ryohei (1982). "Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns in Three Dialects: Murang'a, Nyeri and Ndia." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 24, 1–42.
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