ngoma
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See also: ng'oma
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ngoma (plural ngomas)
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Kikuyu
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]ngoma class 9/10 (plural ngoma)
Derived terms
[edit](Idioms)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- ^ “ngoma” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Njagi, James Kinyua. (2016). "Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change: A Case of English and Gĩkũyũ Contact", p. 53.
Kituba
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ngòmà.
Noun
[edit]ngoma
Kongo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ngòmà.
Noun
[edit]ngoma class 9
Mwani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ngòmà.
Noun
[edit]ngoma class 9 (plural ngoma)
Shona
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ngòmà.
Noun
[edit]ngoma class 9 (plural ngoma class 10)
- drum (musical instrument)
See also
[edit]Sotho
[edit]Verb
[edit]ngoma
Swahili
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ngòmà.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ngoma class IX (plural ngoma class X) or ngoma class V (plural mangoma class VI)
Tsonga
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ngòmà.
Noun
[edit]ngoma class 9 (plural tingoma class 10)
- drum (musical instrument)
Tumbuka
[edit]Noun
[edit]ngoma class 9 (plural ngoma class 10)
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- ki:Christianity
- Kituba terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
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- Kituba lemmas
- Kituba nouns
- Kongo terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
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- Kongo lemmas
- Kongo nouns
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- Mwani terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
- Mwani terms derived from Proto-Bantu
- Mwani lemmas
- Mwani nouns
- Mwani class 9 nouns
- wmw:Percussion instruments
- Shona terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
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- Shona lemmas
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- Shona class 9 nouns
- sn:Percussion instruments
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- Swahili class IX nouns
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- sw:Music
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- ts:Percussion instruments
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- tum:Grains