"hundi" meaning in Swahili

See hundi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-hundi.flac Forms: hundi class IX [canonical], hundi class X [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu ہُنْڈی (hunḍī) / Hindi हुंडी (huṇḍī). Etymology templates: {{bor+|sw|ur|ہُنْڈی}} Borrowed from Urdu ہُنْڈی (hunḍī), {{bor|sw|hi|हुंडी}} Hindi हुंडी (huṇḍī) Head templates: {{sw-noun|n}} hundi class IX (plural hundi class X)
  1. cheque (a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity) Synonyms: cheki Derived forms: kitabu cha hundi (english: chequebook)
    Sense id: en-hundi-sw-noun-YvfMRREe Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Swahili entries with incorrect language header
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "ur",
        "3": "ہُنْڈی"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Urdu ہُنْڈی (hunḍī)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "हुंडी"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi हुंडी (huṇḍī)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Urdu ہُنْڈی (hunḍī) / Hindi हुंडी (huṇḍī).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hundi class IX",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hundi class X",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "hundi class IX (plural hundi class X)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "chequebook",
          "word": "kitabu cha hundi"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cheque (a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity)"
      ],
      "id": "en-hundi-sw-noun-YvfMRREe",
      "links": [
        [
          "cheque",
          "cheque"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cheki"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-hundi.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/Sw-ke-hundi.flac/Sw-ke-hundi.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/Sw-ke-hundi.flac/Sw-ke-hundi.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hundi"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "chequebook",
      "word": "kitabu cha hundi"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "ur",
        "3": "ہُنْڈی"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Urdu ہُنْڈی (hunḍī)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "hi",
        "3": "हुंडी"
      },
      "expansion": "Hindi हुंडी (huṇḍī)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Urdu ہُنْڈی (hunḍī) / Hindi हुंडी (huṇḍī).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hundi class IX",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hundi class X",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "hundi class IX (plural hundi class X)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Swahili class IX nouns",
        "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swahili lemmas",
        "Swahili nouns",
        "Swahili terms borrowed from Hindi",
        "Swahili terms borrowed from Urdu",
        "Swahili terms derived from Hindi",
        "Swahili terms derived from Urdu"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cheque (a note promising to pay money to a named person or entity)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cheque",
          "cheque"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cheki"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-hundi.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/Sw-ke-hundi.flac/Sw-ke-hundi.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/Sw-ke-hundi.flac/Sw-ke-hundi.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hundi"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hundi meaning in Swahili (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (ca09fec and c40eb85). 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.