See kilema in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "sw",
"name": "People",
"orig": "sw:People",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Malagasy",
"lang_code": "mg",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "kilema"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "كِلَام"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic كِلَام (kilām)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*-démà"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *-démà",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Two explanations have been offered:\n* Borrowed from Arabic كِلَام (kilām), plural of كَلْم (kalm, “bite, cut”).\n* From Proto-Bantu *-démà.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "kilema class VII",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "vilema class VIII",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi"
},
"expansion": "kilema class VII (plural vilema class VIII)",
"name": "sw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"person with a disability, cripple"
],
"id": "en-kilema-sw-noun-C1R07b3y",
"links": [
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"disability",
"disability"
],
[
"cripple",
"cripple"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mlemavu"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "39 61",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"physical disability, handicap"
],
"id": "en-kilema-sw-noun-e3W~-smP",
"links": [
[
"physical",
"physical"
],
[
"disability",
"disability"
],
[
"handicap",
"handicap"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-kilema.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/Sw-ke-kilema.flac/Sw-ke-kilema.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/Sw-ke-kilema.flac/Sw-ke-kilema.flac.ogg"
}
],
"word": "kilema"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Swahili class VII nouns",
"Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"Swahili lemmas",
"Swahili nouns",
"sw:People"
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Malagasy",
"lang_code": "mg",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "kilema"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "كِلَام"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic كِلَام (kilām)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "bnt-pro",
"3": "*-démà"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Bantu *-démà",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Two explanations have been offered:\n* Borrowed from Arabic كِلَام (kilām), plural of كَلْم (kalm, “bite, cut”).\n* From Proto-Bantu *-démà.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "kilema class VII",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "vilema class VIII",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vi"
},
"expansion": "kilema class VII (plural vilema class VIII)",
"name": "sw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"person with a disability, cripple"
],
"links": [
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"disability",
"disability"
],
[
"cripple",
"cripple"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mlemavu"
}
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"physical disability, handicap"
],
"links": [
[
"physical",
"physical"
],
[
"disability",
"disability"
],
[
"handicap",
"handicap"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-kilema.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/Sw-ke-kilema.flac/Sw-ke-kilema.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/ff/Sw-ke-kilema.flac/Sw-ke-kilema.flac.ogg"
}
],
"word": "kilema"
}
Download raw JSONL data for kilema meaning in Swahili (1.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (e2469cc 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.
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.