gikuyu

1. 1.

   a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya

   BroaderBantu

Other forms of gikuyu

plural

gikuyus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gikuyu

What does gikuyu mean?

gikuyu means "a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya".

How many syllables are in gikuyu?

gikuyu has 2 syllables: gi-kuyu. The stress falls on "gi".

Is gikuyu a common word?

gikuyu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.