ndare

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ⁿdàɾɛ́/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

ndare class 9/10 (plural ndare)

  1. bramble (Rubus spp.); berry at least of R. keniensis, R. pinnatus, R. steudneri,[2] and R. volkensii[3]
    Hypernym: mũtare

References

  1. 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.
  2. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1337. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
  3. Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 375. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry CentreEastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 3 October 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees

Venetian

Verb

ndare

  1. Alternative form of ndar

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