kibaba [Swahili]

[Plural, vibaba] In Tanzania, 20th century, a unit of capacity. The government of Tanganyika reported to the United Nations, mid 20th century, that the kibaba = 1 liter1, but other observers in the same period record it as “about an [imperial] pint.”2

Four vibaba = 1 pishi.

1. United Nations 1966. Technical Conversion Factors…, 1972, page 318.

2. D. V. Perrott.
Teach Yourself Swahili.
English Universities Press, 1957.

Page 152.

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