mchanga

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mchanga¹

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Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

noun michanga

  1. class iii sand
  2. class iii powder, dust

    Similar: vumbi

mchanga²

noun wachanga

  1. class i young person

adjective

  1. [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#M-wa class|m class_((I))]]/[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#M-mi class|m class_((III))]]/[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#U class|u class_((XI))]] inflected form of -changa

In English

  • soil mixture of sand and organic material
  • sand finely ground rock

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"mchanga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sw/mchanga. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

mchanga. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sw/mchanga

Chicago

"mchanga." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sw/mchanga.

BibTeX
@misc{mchanga_2026,
  title = {mchanga},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/mchanga},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Sw-ke-mchanga.flac.