ibuku

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from English book.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ìβùkù(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

ibuku class 5 (plural mabuku)

  1. book
    Synonym: mbuku

References

  1. ibuku” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 35. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75123.
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