mtumba

English

Noun

mtumba (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mitumba
   • 2009, Peter Okaalet, Bridge Builder, page 92:

     We could not afford nice sweaters for them, […] so they wore threadbare ones bought from a mtumba, second-hand, clothes stall.

   • 2020, Moraa Gitaa, The Shark Attack, page 124:

     The MV Indigo was a twenty-year old^[sic] former Russian-registered grain freighter, now registered as transporting sugar and mtumba clothes around the East African coast.

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Noun

mtumba class III (plural mitumba class IV)

1. bundle or bolt of cloth
2. secondhand article