nambari
Swahili
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English number.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nambari class IX (plural nambari class X)
- number (abstract entity)
Derived terms
[edit]- nambari ya simu (“phone number”)
- nambari ya siri (“PIN”)
References
[edit]- ^ Batibo, Herman M. (2002) “The Evolution of the Kiswahili Syllable Structure”, in South African Journal of African Language[1], volume 22, number 1, , page 4 of 1-10
- ^ Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society[2], volume 33, number 3, , page 71 of 61–78: “The entirely new words were all drawn from English, recast into “Swahili” spelling and pronunciation: Equator became ikweta, number became namba, and judge became jaji.”