English Online Dictionary. What means mba? What does mba mean?
Igbo
Etymology 1
Interjection
ḿba
- no!
Etymology 2
From Proto-Igboid *ʊ́̃-bà. Cognate with Ekpeye ʊ̀bà, Ogbah ḿbà, Ezaa ḿbà.
Noun
ḿba
- country, nation
- town
- nation, ethnicity, people
Etymology 3
Noun
mbá
- rebuke, reprimand
Etymology 4
Noun
mba
- tiredness
- laziness
- rape
References
Irish
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mˠa]
Noun
mba f pl
- Eclipsed form of ba.
- Blíonn siad a mba gach lá. ― They milk their cows every day.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mˠə]
Particle
mba (triggers lenition)
- Eclipsed form of ba.
- dá mba chapall mé ― if I were a horse
Malagasy
Conjunction
mba
- to, in order to
- as
Nzadi
Etymology
From Common Bantu *ìbá.
Noun
mbá (plural mbá)
- palm nut
Related terms
- ibá (“palm tree”)
Further reading
- Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
mba (n class, plural mba)
- dandruff
Swazi
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-jìmba.
Verb
-mba
- (intransitive) to dig
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Xhosa
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-jìmba.
Verb
-mba
- (intransitive) to dig
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Zulu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-jìmba.
Verb
-mba
- (intransitive) to dig
- (intransitive) to burrow
- (transitive) to dig up, unearth, excavate
Inflection
Derived terms
- umumbi
References
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “mba”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “mba”