Kiswahili
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English [edit]
Noun [edit]
Kiswahili (uncountable)
- Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
Swahili — see Swahili
External links [edit]
Swahili [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From the Arabic adjective سواحل (sawāḥil, “coastal dwellers”), plural of ساحل (sāḥil, “boundary, coast”). The ki- prefix is the language noun class of the Kiswahili language. The -i suffix is said by some to be Arabic's نسبة (nisba, “ي- suffix denoting descent or origin”), but by others to be for phonetic reasons.
Noun [edit]
Kiswahili
- Swahili language
External links [edit]
- Wikipedia article on Kiswahili
- Swahili - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
