Etymology

mama mboga

Today it means: A female vegetable hawker. Full definition →

Swahili mama mboga
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  1. Swahili · borrowed frommama mboga
  2. Swahili · borrowed frommama mboga
  3. English todaymama mboga

Borrowed from Swahili mama mboga (literally “mother vegetable”), from mama + mboga.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.