"ndoto" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Lingala]

Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili ndoto. Etymology templates: {{bor+|ln|sw|ndoto}} Borrowed from Swahili ndoto Head templates: {{head|ln|noun}} ndoto
  1. dream
    Sense id: en-ndoto-ln-noun-MP3jWLNH Categories (other): Lingala entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo]

Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish doctor, from Latin doctor. Etymology templates: {{bor|azg|es|doctor}} Spanish doctor, {{der|azg|la|doctor}} Latin doctor Head templates: {{head|azg|noun}} ndoto
  1. doctor

Noun [Shona]

Etymology: From -oto, -ota (“dreams”). Head templates: {{head|sn|noun}} ndoto
  1. dream
    Sense id: en-ndoto-sn-noun-MP3jWLNH Categories (other): Sleep Disambiguation of Sleep: 72 28
  2. fantasy
    Sense id: en-ndoto-sn-noun-UpLydQEy Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Shona entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 21 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 79 Disambiguation of Shona entries with incorrect language header: 8 92
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hope, rota, zviroto, roto

Noun [Swahili]

Audio: Sw-ke-ndoto.flac [Kenya] Forms: ndoto [class-x, plural]
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  1. dream (imaginary events seen while sleeping) Tags: class-ix Related terms: -ota (english: to dream), jinamizi
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.