nyũmba

Etymology
From. Hinde (1904) records nyumba of “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) and numba of “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) as equivalents of English, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 as their equivalents.

Noun

 * 1) house

Etymology
From. Hinde (1904) records nyumba as an equivalent of English in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of 🇨🇬, “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba, and 🇨🇬 as its equivalents.

Pronunciation



 * Yukawa (1981) classified this term into a group including, , , , etc., which Yukawa (1985) merges to another group including , , and so on.

Noun

 * 1) house; a hut where woman lives
 * 2) lineage, family
 * 3) room
 * 1) room

Derived terms