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ahera

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Swahili

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic الآخِرَة (al-ʔāḵira).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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ahera class IX (plural ahera class X)

  1. (religion) afterlife, hereafter

References

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  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 11 Nr. 29
  • Knappert, Jan (1970) “Swahili Religious Terms”, in Journal of Religion in Africa‎[1], volume 3, number 1, →DOI, page 68 of 67-80: “'The other world, the Hereafter', the opposite of dunia, 'this world, the life in which we live now.'”
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