mtumba

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mtumba

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. The sense of second-hand clothing is because second-hand clothes are often packaged in bundles or bales.

noun mitumba

  1. class iii bundle, bale
  2. class iii, plural normally secondhand article (especially clothes)

adjective -a mtumba

  1. invariable secondhand

In English

  • secondhand not new; previously owned and used by another

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

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

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

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@misc{mtumba_2026,
  title = {mtumba},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/mtumba},
  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-mtumba.flac.