nafuu
Appearance
Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic نَفْع (nafʕ).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nafuu class IX (plural nafuu class X)
Derived terms
[edit]- -pata nafuu (“to get better (from an illness)”)
References
[edit]- ^ 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 293 Nr. 2775