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"3": "بَطّ"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ)",
"name": "bor+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic بَطّ (baṭṭ), بَطَّة (baṭṭa).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "bata class V",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "mabata class VI",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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},
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],
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"pos": "noun",
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{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 44 entries",
"parents": [],
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},
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}
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{
"english": "goose",
"translation": "goose",
"word": "bata bukini"
},
{
"english": "turkey",
"translation": "turkey",
"word": "bata mzinga"
}
],
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"duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)"
],
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"duck",
"duck"
],
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]
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},
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}
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). 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.
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