See bwana on Wiktionary
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"world",
"world"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dunya"
}
]
}
],
"word": "bwana"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swahili class V nouns",
"Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"Swahili lemmas",
"Swahili nouns",
"Swahili terms derived from Arabic",
"Swahili terms derived from the Arabic root ء ب و"
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "bibi"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ny",
"2": "bwana",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Chichewa: bwana",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Chichewa: bwana"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "bwana",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: bwana",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: bwana"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "أب",
"4": "أَبُونَا",
"5": "our father"
},
"expansion": "Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "ء ب و"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bwana class V",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "mabwana class VI",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "Bw.",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ma"
},
"expansion": "bwana class V (plural mabwana class VI)",
"name": "sw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"master, lord"
],
"links": [
[
"master",
"master"
],
[
"lord",
"lord"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"mister, Mr."
],
"links": [
[
"mister",
"mister"
],
[
"Mr.",
"Mr."
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"boss"
],
"links": [
[
"boss",
"boss"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"husband"
],
"links": [
[
"husband",
"husband"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-bwana.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/Sw-ke-bwana.flac/Sw-ke-bwana.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/Sw-ke-bwana.flac/Sw-ke-bwana.flac.ogg"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"sw:bwana"
],
"word": "bwana"
}
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