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hotuba

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Swahili

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba).[1]

    Pronunciation

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    • (Standard Swahili) IPA(key): /ˈho.tu.ba/, /hoˈtu.ba/
    • Audio (Kenya):(file)

    Noun

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    hotuba class IX (plural hotuba class X)

    1. speech
    2. sermon
      Synonym: mahubiri
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    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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