Wanjala
Luhya for a boy whose birth fell in a season of hunger, from a root shared with the wider Bantu word for famine.
Meaning and origin
Wanjala is one of the Luhya names that record the hardship or plenty around a child's arrival instead of a hoped-for trait.
How to pronounce Wanjala
| English (US) | wahn-JAH-lah /wɑːnˈdʒɑːlɑː/ |
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