nganga
French
Etymology
From a Bantu language.
Noun
nganga m (plural nganga)
- An African witch doctor or specialist in traditional medicine.
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records enganga as an equivalent of English guinea-fowl in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba nganga and Swahili kanga etc. as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ŋɡàŋɡáꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, 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
nganga class 9/10 (plural nganga)
References
- ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. 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.
- “nganga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 10, 33.
Kongo
Etymology
Compare Swahili mganga.
Noun
nganga
Tagalog
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /ˈŋa.ŋaʔ/
Noun
nganga
- combination of betel nut, chewing tobacco, and a little lime wrapped in a betel leaf prepared for chewing
Synonyms
Related terms
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /ŋa.ˈŋa/
Noun
nganga
- act of opening the mouth
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