bembé

Saramaccan

Etymology

Probably from Kongo vémbe (“purslane”), Kimbundu m-bembe (“purslane”).[1].

Noun

bembé

  1. common purslane, Portulaca oleracea[2]

References
  1. Norval Smith (2015), “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 428
  2. Tinde van Andel; Sofie Ruysschaert (2011) Medicinale en rituele planten van Suriname [Medicinal and ritual plants of Suriname], Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, NCB Naturalis, page 410
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