gereza
See also: gerezą
Polish
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Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gereza f
Declension
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Derived terms
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References
[edit]- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “gereza”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
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Borrowed from Portuguese igreja (“church”),[1] from Latin ecclēsia.
Pronunciation
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[edit]gereza class V (plural magereza class VI)
References
[edit]- ^ Mugane, John M. (2015) The Story of Swahili (Africa in World History), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 53:
- In addition, the Swahili adopted Portuguese words […] The word gereza, meaning “prison” in Swahili, comes from igreja, the Portuguese word for “church.” Perhaps this creative semantic comment reveals the attitudes of Muslim Swahili, who reacted with hostility to Portuguese Christian pressures and wryly observed that the Portuguese built churches in their many fortresses, including Fort Jesus in Mombasa, to shelter their houses of worship from contamination by Islam.
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