malembo

Tumbuka

Etymology

From ma- (“Class 6 noun prefix”) +‎ -lemba (“to write”) +‎ -o (“result noun forming suffix”).

Noun

malembo class 6

  1. marks
  2. (religion) Scripture

References

  • William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎[1], Central Africana Limited, page 62
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