rafiky

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Malagasy

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Etymology

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Either borrowed from Swahili rafiki or its source Arabic رَفِيق (rafīq, “companion”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /raˈfiki/, [rḁˈfikʲ]

Noun

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rafiky

  1. friend

References

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  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, page 731.
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