"dege" meaning in Swahili

See dege in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-dege.flac [Kenya] Forms: madege [plural]
Head templates: {{head|sw|noun|head=}} dege, {{sw-noun|ma}} dege (ma class, plural madege)
  1. Augmentative of ndege: big bird Tags: augmentative, class-5, class-6, form-of Form of: ndege (extra: big bird) Categories (lifeform): Birds

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for dege meaning in Swahili (1.4kB)

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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 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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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