Swahili
mkingiri
mkin-GI-ri
How to say it
Swahilimkingirimkin-GI-risoon
Englishsnakebite remedysoon
Frenchremède anti-veninsoon
Meaning
a shrub whose bark is used traditionally as a remedy for snakebite.
Good to know
a traditional-medicine plant term.
Examples
- Mzee alitafuta gome la mkingiri kumtibu aliyeng'atwa na nyoka.The old man sought mkingiri bark to treat the person bitten by a snake.
- Je, mkingiri unapatikana karibu na hapa?Is the mkingiri shrub found near here?
- Dawa ya mkingiri ilimsaidia haraka.The mkingiri remedy helped him quickly.
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