ikibingobingo

How to say it

Meaning

a tall, slender grass-like plant that grows in wet or marshy ground; a reed (a reduplicated variant of ikibingo).

Good to know

A variant form of ikibingo, naming the same marsh reed plant; often used for a reed thicket near water.

Examples

• Inyoni zororokera mu bibingobingo.Birds nest among the reeds.
• Ese uzi izina ry'iki kibingobingo?Do you know the name of this reed?
• Nta kibingobingo kimeze neza uyu mwaka kubera amapfa.No reed is growing well this year because of the drought.
• Tuzokwambuka ibibingobingo tugana ku kiyaga.We will cross the reeds toward the lake.

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