Swahili

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

swahili

sinonimi

Kiswahili

Arabic

Swahili language

Traduzioni

swahili

Suaheli

Swahili

suajili

Swahili

suaíli

السواحلية

swahili

suaíle

σουαχίλι

suahili

Σουαχίλι

سواحلية

suajelí

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/swəˈhiːli/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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