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pata jiko

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Swahili

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Etymology

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Literally, “to get a kitchen”.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Verb

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-pata jiko (infinitive kupata jiko)

  1. to marry a woman (used only of a man)
    Synonym: -oa

Conjugation

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Conjugation of -pata jiko: see -pata.

References

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  1. ^ Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 97 of 72-103: “pata jiko ‘to marry’ (of a man only, lit. ‘to get a kitchen’)”
  • Kiango, John G. (2003) “Syntactic classification of Swahili verbal expressions”, in Africa & Asia‎[2], volume 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-12-11, page 20 of 20-40: “pata jiko ‘get married’”
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