mukwa

See also: Mukwa

English

Noun

mukwa (uncountable)

  1. Rhodesia and Zimbabwe form of mukula
    • 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), pages 240–241:
      Inside, your boss settles behind a mukwa desk and gestures for you to take a seat on a chair done up in leather upholstery that softens a frame of the same softly glowing wood.

Matal

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [mùkwá][1]

Numeral

mukwa

  1. six
    Mahənay mukwa la lig aŋha la ahəŋ, Yesu azə̀ɓ Piyer, Yakuba ŋgaha Yuhana, deda aŋa Yakuba, ŋgaha adàla atà à gəl gudəŋ kərkər gà à afik, kokuɗa gəl aŋatà. (Mata 17:1)[2]
    And after six days Jesus took along Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. (Matthew 17:1)

References
  1. Rossing, Melvin Olaf (1978) “mukwa”, in Mafa-Mada: A Comparative Study of Chadic Languages in North Cameroun, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 45
  2. http://listen.bible.is/MFHWYI/Matt/17
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