Swahili
mkasiri
mka-SI-ri
How to say it
Swahilimkasirimka-SI-risoon
Englishdye shrubsoon
Frencharbuste à teinturesoon
Meaning
a shrub whose bark is used to produce a black dye.
Good to know
a rare, traditional dye-making term.
Examples
- Wanawake walitumia gome la mkasiri kutengeneza rangi nyeusi.The women used mkasiri bark to make black dye.
- Je, mkasiri hupatikana msituni?Is the mkasiri shrub found in the forest?
- Nguo hiyo ilipakwa rangi kutoka kwenye mkasiri.That cloth was dyed with color from the mkasiri shrub.
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