ng'aragu

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ngaragu as an equivalent of English famine in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ŋàɾàɣúꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]

Noun

ng'aragu class 9

hunger, famine

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

ng'aragu ndĩhoyagwo ũhoro
ng'aragu ya mũndũ ũngĩ ndĩgiria mũndũ ũngĩ akome
ng'aragu ya mũthenya ũmwe nĩĩiyagĩrũo
ũthayo na ng'aragu nĩ mũndũ na mũrũ wa nyina

References

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 22–23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

“ng'aragu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 22–23. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[yy1981-2] Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.