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Definition of Mwera
1. Noun. A Bantu language spoken in southern coastal Tanzania.
Definition of Mwera
1. Noun. A city in Tanzania ¹
2. Noun. A Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. Also called '''Chimwera''', '''Cimwera''', or '''Mwela''' ¹
3. Noun. A Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. Also called '''Chimwera''', '''Kinyasa''', '''Nyanza''', '''Nyasa''' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mwera
Literary usage of Mwera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald (1898)
"... TO DUNGA Continuous Clove Plantations—Arab Residences—Streams and Ridges—
M'Do—A Neglected Property—Mwera ..."
2. Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales by Robert Hamill Nassau (1914)
"Tortoise shouted to him, "Mwera! I have come! You! Come ashore! I am visiting you!"
Hippopotamus came bellowing in great wrath with wide open jaws, ..."
3. A Gilbertese-English Dictionary by Hiram Bingham (1908)
"Mwe'ña, vi to settle down in a permanent residence. Mwera'oi, n. a condition or
state of peace and security. Mwera'oi, a. peaceful; at peace; ..."
4. A Memoir of Edward Steere: Third Missionary Bishop in Central Africa by Robert Marshall Heanley (1888)
"We were now fairly in the Mwera country, and stopped at a village close by the Lake.
" We were nine days of slow travelling in passing through the Mwera ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"Skizze der Grammatik des Ki- Mwera in Deutsch-Ostafrika. (Zeitschrift für afrikan.
und ocean. Sprachen. Jahrg. 2, pp. 197— 204. Berlin, 1896. 8°.) NAGO. ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... a small lakelet, inclosed by wooded hills, and passed thence for nine days
through the settlements of the Wa-Mwera, villages finely sitn- ated along the ..."
7. Zanzibar in Contemporary Times: A Short History of the Southern East in the by Robert Nunez Lyne (1905)
"... Machui range on which it stood is flanked on the west by the marshy river
Mwera, which served as a moat against a hostile advance from the town. ..."
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