Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mbuna

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: mbuna
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.

Example Sentences

"The mbunas have suffered such local extinctions for a number of reasons. These include shifts in eating habits for the fisher folk who prefer eating mbunas and save the prime species for their market (in contrast to original beliefs that mbunas are not edible), habitate loss and fragementation leading to loss of breeding sites (especially along the western side of the arm where much development is taking place, for instance, the construction of resorts)."

Etymology

Borrowed from Tonga (Malawi) mbuna (“cichlid”).

Word Breakdown

Root: mbuna

Inflected Forms

mbunas (plural)

Questions

What does mbuna mean?: One of a group of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Malawi.
Where does mbuna come from?: Borrowed from Tonga (Malawi) mbuna (“cichlid”).

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