tambala
/tamˈbɑːlə
/noun (plural same or tambalas)
A monetary unit of Malawi, equal to one hundredth of a kwacha.Such fuel price hikes spell doom for a poor villager who has to add a few more tambalas when buying paraffin....
- The Reserve Bank of Malawi on November 11 issued a new series of 20 tambala and 50 tambala coins.
- He was about seven years old, dressed in rags and begging for tambalas in the local market.
Origin
From Nyanja, literally 'cockerel'.
Rhymes
- griefing
- grief-stricken
- Grieg, Edvard
- Grier, Robert Cooper
- Grierson, John
- grievance
- grievance procedure
- grieve
- griever
- grievous
- grievous bodily harm
- grievously
- grievousness
- griff
- Griffey, Ken
- griffin
- Griffith, Arthur
- Griffith, D. W.
- Griffith Joyner, Florence
- griffon
- griffon vulture
- grift
- grifter
- grig
- griggle