Where does “mboga” come from?

mboga (English) comes from Swahili mboga, from Proto-Bantu *mbògà — vegetable.

mboga (English): vegetable

Definitions

  1. vegetable

Ancestry of “mboga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swahilimbogavegetable (a plant raised for some edible part of it)
2Proto-Bantu*mbògàvegetable
Every word from Proto-Bantu *mbògà →Every word from Swahili mboga →
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