mpendwa

Swahili

Etymology

From m- +‎ -pendwa (“to be loved”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mpendwa class I (plural wapendwa class II)

1. beloved person, dear

References

• Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎^[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 82 of 72-103