mbiti

Kamba

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mbiti as an equivalent of English hyæna, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu hiti, and Swahili fisi and pisi as their equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mbítí/

Noun

mbiti (plural mbiti)

  1. hyena

References

  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 3233. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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