mtumba

English

Noun

mtumba (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of mitumba.
    • 2009, Peter Okaalet, Bridge Builder, page 92:
      We could not afford nice sweaters for them, […] so they wore threadbare ones bought from a mtumba, second-hand, clothes stall.
    • 2020, Moraa Gitaa, The Shark Attack, page 124:
      The MV Indigo was a twenty-year old[sic] former Russian-registered grain freighter, now registered as transporting sugar and mtumba clothes around the East African coast.

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Noun

mtumba class III (plural mitumba class IV)

  1. bundle or bolt of cloth
  2. secondhand article
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