kĩĩgamba

Etymology
From a verb.

Hinde (1904) records kigaamba as an equivalent of English in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also 🇨🇬 as its equivalent.

Pronunciation



 * Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including, , , , , , and so on.

Noun

 * 1) a huge peapod-shaped cast iron containing iron balls, or an empty container filled with pieces of a bottle, used as a musical instrument for making rhythms of dances; tied to legs and shaking them would produce sounds like, baca, baca, baca...