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Meaning of menyeka | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
mɛˈɲɛ.kɑ

Definitions

  1. Stative form of -menya: to be peeled, to be stripped (of skin, peel…)
    form-of, stative
  2. to toil

Examples

“Hii ni kwa sababu wakati huo maganda yake humenyeka kwa urahisi.”

This is because at that moment its peel is easily stripped.

“Jibu likawa "watumwa" wa kumenyeka kwenye mashamba ya karafuu na minazi Zanzibar pamoja na mashamba ya malighafi ughaibuni[…]”

The answer was then "slaves" who toiled in the fields of cloves and coconuts in Zanzibar as well as in the fields of raw materials abroad […]

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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