tumbaku
too-MBAH-koo
How to say it
Swahilitumbakutoo-MBAH-koosoon
Englishtobacco
Frenchtabac
Meaning
A plant whose large leaves are dried and used for smoking in cigarettes and pipes; an important cash crop in Tabora and elsewhere.
Good to know
N class noun, no plural. Zao la tumbaku, the tobacco crop; kuvuta tumbaku, to smoke tobacco. Sigara are cigarettes.
Examples
- Wakulima wa Tabora wanalima tumbaku kwa wingi.Farmers in Tabora grow a lot of tobacco.
- Bei ya tumbaku imeshuka mwaka huu.The price of tobacco has fallen this year.
- Uvutaji wa tumbaku unadhuru mapafu.Smoking tobacco harms the lungs.
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