mbuna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tonga (Malawi) mbuna (“cichlid”).

Noun

mbuna (plural mbunas)

  1. One of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.
    • 2014, Steve Donda, Fragmentation of Resource Management on the South East Arm of Lake Malawi: Dynamics Around Fisheries:
      The mbunas have suffered such local extinctions for a number of reasons. These include shifts in eating habits for the fisher folk who prefer eating mbunas and save the prime species for their market (in contrast to original beliefs that mbunas are not edible), habitate loss and fragementation leading to loss of breeding sites (especially along the western side of the arm where much development is taking place, for instance, the construction of resorts).

Anagrams

Xhosa

Etymology

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Relative

-mbuna?

  1. meek

Inflection
Relative concord
Modifier Copulative
positive negative positive negative
1st singular endimbuna endingembuna ndimbuna andimbuna
2nd singular ombuna ongembuna umbuna awumbuna
1st plural esimbuna esingembuna simbuna asimbuna
2nd plural enimbuna eningembuna nimbuna animbuna
Class 1 ombuna ongembuna umbuna akambuna
Class 2 abambuna abangembuna bambuna abambuna
Class 3 ombuna ongembuna umbuna awumbuna
Class 4 embuna engembuna imbuna ayimbuna
Class 5 elimbuna elingembuna limbuna alimbuna
Class 6 ambuna angembuna ambuna awambuna
Class 7 esimbuna esingembuna simbuna asimbuna
Class 8 ezimbuna ezingembuna zimbuna azimbuna
Class 9 embuna engembuna imbuna ayimbuna
Class 10 ezimbuna ezingembuna zimbuna azimbuna
Class 11 olumbuna olungembuna lumbuna alumbuna
Class 14 obumbuna obungembuna bumbuna abumbuna
Class 15 okumbuna okungembuna kumbuna akumbuna
Class 17 okumbuna okungembuna kumbuna akumbuna
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