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Mâvu

Noun class VnounReviewedpage 285

Definitions

1
Earth; dust.
PT Terra; pó.·FR Terre ; poussière.

Noun class V

u- / mau-

abstract terms

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Water & landscape

Muhenda — Large bare and unproductive ground. Plain.
Ditúmbu — Mound; hillock.
Matúmbu — Mounds.
Makelengende — Balls or discs of charcoal.
Mathatha — Mud; sludge.
Ixi — Surface layer of the earth in which plants grow
Múseke — Coarse sand; gravelly soil.
Sabala — Waterlogged ground. Flooded field. Mud; silt.
Mátutu — Forests. Deserted, solitary places.
Ditoua — Mud; slime.

Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 285 (right)

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