shwari

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Swahili

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic شُووَار (šūwār, “calm sea”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Adjective

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shwari (invariable)

  1. calm, quiet (free of noise and disturbance)

References

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  1. ^ Schadeberg, T. (2009). Swahili vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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