farasi

See also: Farasi

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَرَس (faras).

Pronunciation

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /fɑˈɾɑ.si/

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Noun

farasi class IX (plural farasi class X)

1. horse

   kuendesha farasi ― to ride a horse

2. framework
3. (chess) knight

Derived terms

• kifarasi

Descendants

• → Kikuyu: mbarathi
• → Lingala: farása
• → Luganda: mbalaàsi
• → Tooro: embaraasi

See also

• (Chinese zodiac signs) alama za unajimu wa Kichina; panya (“rat”), ng'ombe (“ox”), chui milia (“tiger”) or babara, sungura (“rabbit”), dragoni (“dragon”), nyoka (“snake”), farasi (“horse”), mbuzi (“goat”), kima (“monkey”), jogoo (“rooster”) or jimbi, mbwa (“dog”), nguruwe (“pig”) ^{(Category: sw:Chinese zodiac signs) [edit]}

References

• Nettelbladt, F. Freiherr von (1891), Suaheli-Dragoman. Gespräche, Wörterbuch und praktische Anleitungen zum Verkehr mit den Eingeborenen in Deutsch-Ostafrika [Swahili Interpreter: Conversations, Dictionary and Practical Instructions for Dealing with the Natives in German East Africa] (in German), Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, page 118: “farássi (ar.), Pferd.”
• Rechenbach, Charles W. (1967), Swahili-English Dictionary, Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, page 90