thaahu

n.

1. impurity, defilement. Impurity, defilement. The state of being ritually unclean or morally polluted; contamination that violates religious or moral standards.

Example: Tha 1.1–15.21 Ũũgĩ nĩahonokirie mũingĩ mũtheru na rũũrĩrĩ rũtaarĩ na thaahu (The holy people and their blameless descendants—it was she); Ningĩ magĩkaanio kũruithia ciana ciao cia tũhĩĩ, makĩĩrwo megwatie thaahu na njĩra ciothe, (to leave their sons uncircumcised, and to defile themselves with every kind of impurity and abomination;)