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Proper name [Dutch]

IPA: /ˌsʋaːˈɦi.li/ Audio: Nl-Swahili.ogg
Rhymes: -ili Etymology: Borrowed from English Swahili. Etymology templates: {{bor+|nl|en|Swahili}} Borrowed from English Swahili Head templates: {{nl-proper noun|n}} Swahili n
  1. Swahili (language) Wikipedia link: nl:Swahili Tags: neuter Categories (topical): Languages
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Proper name [English]

IPA: /swəˈhiːli/ [UK], /swɑˈhili/ [US], /swəˈhili/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Swahili.wav
Etymology: From Swahili swahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sw|swahili}} Swahili swahili, {{der|en|ar|سَوَاحِلِيّ||(people) of the coasts}} Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), {{root|en|ar|س ح ل}} Head templates: {{en-prop}} Swahili
  1. 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. Categories (topical): Languages Synonyms: KiSwahili, Kiswahili Derived forms: Settler Swahili Translations (language): ስዋሂሊኛ (səwahiliña) (Amharic), السَّوَاحِلِيَّة (as-sawāḥiliyya) [feminine] (Arabic), սվահիլի (svahili) (Armenian), চোৱাহিলি (süahili) (Assamese), suaḥili (Asturian), suahilicə (Azerbaijani), суаһилиҹә [Cyrillic] (Azerbaijani), swahili (Basque), суахі́лі (suaxíli) [masculine] (Belarusian), суахи́ли (suahíli) [masculine] (Bulgarian), свагілі (svahili) [masculine] (Carpathian Rusyn), кісвагілі (kisvahili) [masculine] (Carpathian Rusyn), suahili [masculine] (Catalan), Chiswahili (Chichewa), 斯瓦希里語 (si¹ ngaa⁵ hei⁵ lei⁵ jyu⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 斯瓦希里語 (Sīwǎxīlǐ yǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), svahilština [feminine] (Czech), Swahili [neuter] (Dutch), svahila (Esperanto), swahili (Finnish), swahili [masculine] (French), suahili [masculine] (Galician), სუაჰილი (suahili) (Georgian), Suaheli [neuter] (German), Swahili [neuter] (German), σουαχίλι (souachíli) [feminine] (Greek), swahilimiutut (Greenlandic), סווהילי (Hebrew), סְוָהִילִי (swahíli) (Hebrew), סווהילית (Hebrew), סְוָהִילִית (swahílit) [feminine] (Hebrew), स्वाहिली (svāhilī) [feminine] (Hindi), szuahéli (Hungarian), svahílí [neuter] (Icelandic), ᔅᕙᐦᐃᓕᑐᑦ (sfahilitot) (Inuktitut), Svahaílis [feminine] (Irish), Ciosvahaílis [feminine] (Irish), スワヒリ語 (Suwahiri-go) (Japanese), Суахили (Suaxili) (Kazakh), Gĩthweri (Kikuyu), 스와힐리어 (Seuwahilli-eo) (Korean), lingua Suahelica [feminine] (Latin), lingua Swahelica [feminine] (Latin), swahilšćina [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), свахи́ли (svahíli) [neuter] (Macedonian), स्वाहिली (svāhilī) (Marathi), Swahííli bizaad (Navajo), स्वाहिली (svāhilī) (Nepali), Souahili [masculine] (Norman), swahili [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), swahili [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), سواحیلی (svâhili) (Persian), suahili [neuter] (Polish), suaíli [masculine] (Portuguese), suaíle [masculine] (Portuguese), суахи́ли (suaxíli) [masculine] (Russian), Swauheely (Scots), свахили [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), svahili [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), svahilčina [feminine] (Slovak), swahilčina [feminine] (Slovak), svahilščina [feminine] (Slovene), suajili [masculine] (Spanish), swahili [masculine] (Spanish), suajelí [masculine] (Spanish), Kiswahili (Swahili), swahili (Swedish), савоҳилӣ (savohili) (Tajik), ሰዋሂሊኛ (säwahiliña) (Tigrinya), Savahili (Turkish), суахі́лі (suaxíli) [masculine] (Ukrainian), кісуахілі (kisuaxili) [masculine] (Ukrainian), swahilšćina [feminine] (Upper Sorbian), سواحلی (svāhilī) [feminine] (Urdu), tiếng Swahili (Vietnamese), סוואַהילי (svahili) [neuter] (Yiddish)
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Noun [English]

IPA: /swəˈhiːli/ [UK], /swɑˈhili/ [US], /swəˈhili/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Swahili.wav Forms: Swahilis [plural], Swahili [plural]
Etymology: From Swahili swahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sw|swahili}} Swahili swahili, {{der|en|ar|سَوَاحِلِيّ||(people) of the coasts}} Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), {{root|en|ar|س ح ل}} Head templates: {{en-noun|s|Swahili}} Swahili (plural Swahilis or Swahili)
  1. A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast. Synonyms: Waswahili [plural]
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        "3": "سَوَاحِلِيّ",
        "4": "",
        "5": "(people) of the coasts"
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        "3": "س ح ل"
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "s",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Arye Oded, Islam and Politics in Kenya, page 12:",
          "text": "The Swahilis are a unique and important community that began to form before the arrival of Islam, as a result of intermarriage between Arab traders who came to the coast and women from local ethnic groups.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear, The Swahili, page 29:",
          "text": "The final sources for the early history of the Swahili are the oral traditions related by them about their own past.",
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          "Comorian"
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        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/swəˈhiːli/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/swɑˈhili/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "ipa": "/swəˈhili/",
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        "US"
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    "Swahili people"
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}

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