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Definition of Mbira
1. Noun. (musical instruments in southern Africa) Any of several musical instruments, similar to a marimba, having a small sound box fitted with a row of tuned tabs that are plucked with the thumbs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mbira
1. an African musical instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mbira
Literary usage of Mbira
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of a Grammar of the Vei Language: Together with a Vei-English by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle (1854)
"sleep;" eg ki ra mbira, lit. " sleep has caught me." Kike, v. " to sleep." Kima, s.
" cold ;" eg kima-banda, " season of cold, ..."
2. Dictionary of the Kiniassa Language by John Rebman, Johann Ludwig Krapf, Church Missionary Society (1877)
"mbira, s. (wa) (pi. mi—), 1) a specie» of creeper, which, on an incision being
made, emits a slimy ... mbira, s. (wa, pi. id, ta), 1) a certain animal; ..."
3. Central African Game and Its Spoor by Chauncy Hugh Stigand, Denis D. Lyell (1906)
"mbira. HABITS. Lives on hills in holes in the rocks. Pimpi. A pile of buds of
small flower shoots may be seen on the top of a stone or rock, ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1813)
"... powers were next transferred by the Regent to Lord mbira, who treated with
Lords Grey and Grenville upon a basis that seemed to remove all difficulties ..."
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