nahau
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Hawaiian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Semi-learned borrowing from Fijian gasau simulating inheritance from Proto-Polynesian *ŋasau (cognate with Tongan ngahau).
Noun[edit]
nahau
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Schütz, Albert J. (2019) Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 266
Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic نَحْو (naḥw).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
nahau (n class, plural nahau)
- idiom (established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words)
Categories:
- Hawaiian terms borrowed from Fijian
- Hawaiian semi-learned borrowings from Fijian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Fijian
- Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian nouns
- Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic
- Swahili terms derived from Arabic
- Swahili terms derived from the Arabic root ن ح و
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili n class nouns
- sw:Figures of speech