Swahili

Significado (Inglés)

Name

An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.

Noun

A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast.

Conceptos

swahili

suajili

suajelí

suahelí

kiswahili

suaheli

suahili

Suajili

swahili

Sinónimos

Kiswahili

Arabic

Swahili language

Traducciones

swahili

Suaheli

Swahili

swahili

Swahili

السواحلية

suaíli

σουαχίλι

suaíle

suahili

Σουαχίλι

سواحلية

Savahilice

Swahili

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/swəˈhiːli/

Etimología (Inglés)

Borrowed from Swahili swahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”).