machela
Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese machila.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]machela class VI (plural only)
References
[edit]- ^ Johnson, Frederick (1939), A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 252
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (16 October 2023), Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture; 40), Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 205 Nr. 583