thabai

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ða.βa.i/
• As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 14 with a trisyllabic stem.

Noun

thabai class 9/10 (plural thabai)

1. A species of nettle, Urtica massaica Mildbr.; leaves traditionally used as vegetable among Gĩkũyũ people.

   Synonym: hatha

References

• Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxxii–xxxiii. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Leakey, L. S. B. (1977) The Southern Kikuyu before 1903‎^[1], volume 3, London and New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 1346