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

• muban

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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