dhahabu
Swahili
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| Chemical element (edit) | ||||||||
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| Au Atomic number 79 dhahabu | ||||||||
Classification data
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| Previous: ← platini, platinamu (Pt) | ||||||||
| Next: zebaki (Hg) → |
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic ذَهَب (ḏahab).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dhahabu class IX (plural dhahabu class X)
- gold (element, mineral)
Descendants
[edit]Adjective
[edit]-a dhahabu (invariable)
- gold (color/colour)
See also
[edit]| -eupe | -a kijivujivu ; -a kijivu | -eusi |
| -ekundu | -a machungwa; -a hudhurungi ; -a kahawia | -a manjano ; -a kimanjano ; -a njano ; -a dhahabu |
| -a manjani giza | -a kibichi ; -a kijani | -a manjani mwangaza |
| -a bluu mwangaza | -a samawati | -a bluu |
| -a urujuani | -a zambarau | -a waridi ; -a pinki |
References
[edit]- ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112 Nr. 996
Categories:
- sw:Chemical elements
- sw:Transition metals
- sw:Period 6 elements
- sw:Group 11 elements
- sw:D-block elements
- Swahili terms derived from Arabic
- Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili class IX nouns
- Swahili adjectives
- Swahili indeclinable adjectives
- sw:Minerals
- sw:Yellows