Kiswahili
Appearance
See also: kiswahili
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swahili Kiswahili.
Proper noun
[edit]Kiswahili
- Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
- 2010, Parliament of Kenya, “Chapter 2, Article 7(1)”, in Constitution of Kenya, 2010, page 14:
- The national language of the Republic is Kiswahili.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Swahili — see Swahili
Further reading
[edit]Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ki- + Arabic سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coastal dwellers”), plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “boundary, coast”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Kiswahili class VII (no plural)
- Swahili language
Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Swahili
- English terms derived from Swahili
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Languages
- Swahili terms prefixed with ki-
- Swahili terms derived from Arabic
- Swahili terms derived from the Arabic root س ح ل
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili uncountable nouns
- Swahili class VII nouns