mũheenania

Kikuyu

Alternative forms
  • mũhenania

Etymology

From kũheenia (“to tell a lie”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mòhɛ̀ːnániá/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩhengere, kĩariũngũ, and so on.

Noun

mũheenania class 1 (plural aheenania)

  1. liar
    Synonym: mũheenia

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mũheenania arĩ matukũ
  • mũheenania ndathekaga

(Nouns)

References
  1. “mũheenania” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 145. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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