"karai" meaning in Swahili

See karai in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-karai.flac [Kenya] Forms: makarai [plural]
Head templates: {{head|sw|noun|head=}} karai, {{sw-noun|ma|makarai}} karai (ma class, plural makarai)
  1. basin (bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall) Tags: class-5, class-6 Synonyms: beseni
    Sense id: en-karai-sw-noun-c-cGVyul Categories (other): Swahili entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swahili entries with incorrect language header: 45 55
  2. basin, wok (bowl for cooking) Tags: class-5, class-6
    Sense id: en-karai-sw-noun-VaFKJvrG Categories (other): Swahili entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swahili entries with incorrect language header: 45 55

Inflected forms

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

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    "Swahili terms with audio links",
    "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Tok Pisin lemmas",
    "Tok Pisin terms derived from English",
    "Tok Pisin verbs"
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          "basin"
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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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