mbarin.

Brit.

/(ə)mˈbɑːri/, U.S.

/(ə)mˈbɑri/

Origin: A borrowing from Swahili. Etymon: Swahili mbari.

Etymology: < Swahili mbari (m = the nasal component of the initial consonant).The word may have entered central Swahili (of the Mombasa area) from a neighbouring Nyika language, i.e. Giryama. In northern Swahili the word is not used, nyumba or mlango being employed.

In East Africa: an extended family unit.

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1938 J. Kenyatta Facing Mount Kenya i. 1 Family group (mbari or myomba)..brings together all those who are related by blood... Clan (moherega)..joins in one group several mbari units who have the same clan name and are believed to have been descended from one family group in the remote past.

1950 H. E. Lambert Syst. Land Tenure in Kikuyu Land Unit vi. 89 The written mbari claims usually consist of categorical statements according to a set formula.

1977 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Petals of Blood ii. ii. 9 Other heads of big houses and clans and mbari had had enough wives and sons to do the work.

1998 Res. Afr. Lit. (Electronic ed.) 29 By glorifying a social order based on the mbari elders' legal knowledge and laborious wealth, Kenyatta's ‘elderly’ text had championed the history of Kikuyu property against the aspersions of the Land Commission.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mbari
释义	mbarin. Brit. /(ə)mˈbɑːri/, U.S. /(ə)mˈbɑri/ Origin: A borrowing from Swahili. Etymon: Swahili mbari. Etymology: < Swahili mbari (m = the nasal component of the initial consonant).The word may have entered central Swahili (of the Mombasa area) from a neighbouring Nyika language, i.e. Giryama. In northern Swahili the word is not used, nyumba or mlango being employed. In East Africa: an extended family unit. ΚΠ 1938 J. Kenyatta Facing Mount Kenya i. 1 Family group (mbari or myomba)..brings together all those who are related by blood... Clan (moherega)..joins in one group several mbari units who have the same clan name and are believed to have been descended from one family group in the remote past. 1950 H. E. Lambert Syst. Land Tenure in Kikuyu Land Unit vi. 89 The written mbari claims usually consist of categorical statements according to a set formula. 1977 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Petals of Blood ii. ii. 9 Other heads of big houses and clans and mbari had had enough wives and sons to do the work. 1998 Res. Afr. Lit. (Electronic ed.) 29 By glorifying a social order based on the mbari elders' legal knowledge and laborious wealth, Kenyatta's ‘elderly’ text had championed the history of Kikuyu property against the aspersions of the Land Commission. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1938
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