# ng'ombe
## Chichewa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈŋo.ᵐbe/

### Noun

ng'ombe class 9 (plural ng'ombe class 10)
* cow, ox

## Chuabo
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè.

### Noun

ng'ombe
* ox, cow

### References

* Shrum, Jeff (2018) Chuwabo - Portuguese Dictionary‎, SIL International

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè. Hinde (1904) records ngombe as an equivalent of English cow in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ngombe and Swahili ngombe as its equivalents.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ŋɔ̀ᵐbɛ̀(ꜜ)/
    As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
* (Kiambu)
   * (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.

### Noun

ng'ombe class 9/10 (plural ng'ombe)
* cow or ox
    ng'ombe yakwa - my cow/ox
    ng'ombe ciakwa - my cows/oxen

#### Hypernyms

* mahiũ, indo

#### Hyponyms

* (female) mori; (male) ndeegwa, ndegwa, ndume; (child) njaũ

#### Derived terms

(Proverbs)
* gũthũũra ng'ombe nĩ gũthũũra kamũkwa kayo
* ndegwa nyinyi ĩhaicaga ng'ombe na mũtwe
* ng'ombe itionagwo nĩ ithayo
* ng'ombe yahithio njaũ ĩkamagĩrwo ikaya

#### Related terms

(Nouns)
* kĩgombe class 7

### References

* ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 16–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* ↑ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
* ↑ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
* ↑ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 31.

## Mwani
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè.

### Noun

ng'ombe class 9 (plural ng'ombe)
* cow, ox

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈŋɔ.ᵐbɛ/
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### Noun

ng'ombe class IX (plural ng'ombe class X)
* cow, ox
* (derogatory) idiot

#### Usage notes

* Under animacy rules for Swahili, this noun takes class 1/2 affixes:
    ng'ombe mzuri (nice cow, class 1)
    ng'ombe wazuri (nice cows, class 2)
    Ng'ombe anakula majani (The cow is eating grass)

#### Descendants

* → Malagasy: omby

#### See also

* (Chinese zodiac signs) alama za unajimu wa Kichina; panya (“rat”), ng'ombe (“ox”), chui milia (“tiger”) or babara, sungura (“rabbit”), dragoni (“dragon”), nyoka (“snake”), farasi (“horse”), mbuzi (“goat”), kima (“monkey”), jogoo (“rooster”) or jimbi, mbwa (“dog”), nguruwe (“pig”)

## Tumbuka
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngòmbè.

### Noun

ng'ombe class 9 (plural ng'ombe class 10)
* cow, ox