mbaage

Kikuyu

mbaage

Alternative forms

• mbage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ᵐbaːɣɛ/
• As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.

Noun

mbaage class 9/10 (plural mbaage)

1. Fruit and seeds of plants of species Biancaea decapetala (Mauritius thorn) (mũbaage); seeds were used for divination.

References

• “ibaage” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 21. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Leakey, L. S. B. (1977) The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, volume 3, London and New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 1307