Swahili
mentaa
MEHN-tah
How to say it
SwahilimentaaMEHN-tahsoon
Englishtweezerssoon
Frenchpince à épilersoon
Meaning
a small tool with two arms used for plucking hair or picking up tiny objects, tweezers.
Good to know
no plural change; mentaa is a variant of mentari, a small pincer tool.
Examples
- Alitumia mentaa kung'oa nywele.She used tweezers to pluck out hair.
- Je, mentaa ziko wapi?Where are the tweezers?
- Hawakupata mentaa safi.They did not find clean tweezers.
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