jemben.
/ˈdʒɛmbeɪ/, U.S. /ˈdʒɛmbeɪ/, East African English /ˈdʒembe/ East African.
A hand tool shaped like a hoe, with a blade set at an (acute) angle to the handle, used for digging, breaking up soil, removing weeds, etc.
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1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 88 The P'házi, or chief of the district, demands a certain amount of cloth for free passage from all merchants on their way to the interior; from those returning he takes..jembe or iron hoes.
1967 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Grain of Wheat viii. 143 Mugo used a small jembe to turn the soil over in the bare and weedy patches between the plants.
2018 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 21 Apr. Use a clean jembe or spade to collect the soil into a clean plastic bucket.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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