See kĩiniĩ gĩtaita on Wiktionary
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"Lit., “something upside down without leaking”; According to Benson (1964), kĩnya (“gourd”) precedes this phrase in some cases then entire meaning is “an upside-down gourd which does not leak.”",
"A riddle whose solution is mũkamo wa ng'ombe “cow's udder”; another solution is kĩnya."
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