njahi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of black bean grown in Kenya, hyacinth bean or lablab (Lablab purpureus).
Example Sentences
- "This may have been due to the rather unsatisfactory manner in which the bjahi went under the ground — future experiments will corroborate this explanation or otherwise — or because the soil is still so fertile and still has so much organic matter that, especially in years of ample rainfall, the amount of soil nutrients derived from two crops of njahi makes no appreciable difference to- the total plant food substances available in the soil."
- "When he got there, he found his colleagues tucking into roast chicken and other tastier things than njahi and could not help pitying himself."
Etymology
Cf. Kikuyu njahĩ (“hyacinth bean(s)”).