rafiky
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Malagasy
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either borrowed from Swahili rafiki or its source Arabic رَفِيق (rafīq, “companion”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rafiky
References
[edit]- ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, , page 731.