shabashi
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Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Iranian Persian شاباش (šâbâš)
Interjection
[edit]shabashi
References
[edit]- Almasi, Oswald, Fallon, Michael David, Nazish, Pardhan Wared (2014) Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels, Lanham • New York • Oxford: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 373: “Shabashi! or Hongera! – Expresses congratulations, exactly as the English expression “Congratulations!””