mbarathi

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

  • mbaraathi

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili farasi,[1][2] from Arabic فَرَس (faras).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ᵐbàɾá(ː)ðì(ꜜ)/
The second a is pronounced both short and long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mbarathi class 9/10 (plural mbarathi)

  1. horse

References

  1. “mbarathi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Baldi, Sergio (2011) “Swahili: A Donor Language”, in Lingua Posnaniensis, volume 53, number 1, →DOI, page 11 of 7-24
  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, 75123.
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