"korosho" meaning in Swahili

See korosho in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-korosho.flac [Kenya] Forms: makorosho [plural]
Etymology: From Portuguese caroço (“stone, hard seed”). Etymology templates: {{der|sw|pt|caroço||stone, hard seed}} Portuguese caroço (“stone, hard seed”) Head templates: {{head|sw|noun|head=}} korosho, {{sw-noun|ma}} korosho (ma class, plural makorosho)
  1. cashew nut Tags: class-5, class-6 Categories (lifeform): Nuts Derived forms: mkorosho

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for korosho meaning in Swahili (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "caroço",
        "4": "",
        "5": "stone, hard seed"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese caroço (“stone, hard seed”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Portuguese caroço (“stone, hard seed”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makorosho",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "korosho",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "korosho (ma class, plural makorosho)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English quotations with omitted translation",
          "parents": [
            "Quotations with omitted translation",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "sw",
          "name": "Nuts",
          "orig": "sw:Nuts",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Plants",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "mkorosho"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cashew nut"
      ],
      "id": "en-korosho-sw-noun-Uz9nKng8",
      "links": [
        [
          "cashew nut",
          "cashew nut"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "class-5",
        "class-6"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-korosho.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/Sw-ke-korosho.flac/Sw-ke-korosho.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/Sw-ke-korosho.flac/Sw-ke-korosho.flac.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Kenya"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Kenya)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "korosho"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mkorosho"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "caroço",
        "4": "",
        "5": "stone, hard seed"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese caroço (“stone, hard seed”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Portuguese caroço (“stone, hard seed”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makorosho",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "korosho",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "korosho (ma class, plural makorosho)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English quotations with omitted translation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swahili entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "Swahili lemmas",
        "Swahili ma class nouns",
        "Swahili nouns",
        "Swahili terms derived from Portuguese",
        "Swahili terms with audio links",
        "sw:Nuts"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cashew nut"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cashew nut",
          "cashew nut"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "class-5",
        "class-6"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-korosho.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/Sw-ke-korosho.flac/Sw-ke-korosho.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2b/Sw-ke-korosho.flac/Sw-ke-korosho.flac.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Kenya"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Kenya)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "korosho"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.