"mcheshi" meaning in Swahili

See mcheshi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac Forms: mcheshi class I [canonical], wacheshi class II [plural]
Etymology: From m- + -chesha (“make someone laugh”) + -i. Etymology templates: {{af|sw|m-|chesha|-i|alt2=-chesha|t2=make someone laugh}} m- + -chesha (“make someone laugh”) + -i Head templates: {{sw-noun|m-wa}} mcheshi class I (plural wacheshi class II)
  1. a comedian or entertainer Categories (topical): Comedy, Occupations Synonyms: mchekeshaji

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "m-",
        "3": "chesha",
        "4": "-i",
        "alt2": "-chesha",
        "t2": "make someone laugh"
      },
      "expansion": "m- + -chesha (“make someone laugh”) + -i",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From m- + -chesha (“make someone laugh”) + -i.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mcheshi class I",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wacheshi class II",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m-wa"
      },
      "expansion": "mcheshi class I (plural wacheshi class II)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili terms prefixed with m-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili terms suffixed with -i",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sw",
          "name": "Comedy",
          "orig": "sw:Comedy",
          "parents": [
            "Drama",
            "Theater",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sw",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "sw:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a comedian or entertainer"
      ],
      "id": "en-mcheshi-sw-noun-SW-W5CUC",
      "links": [
        [
          "comedian",
          "comedian"
        ],
        [
          "entertainer",
          "entertainer"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mchekeshaji"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mcheshi"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "m-",
        "3": "chesha",
        "4": "-i",
        "alt2": "-chesha",
        "t2": "make someone laugh"
      },
      "expansion": "m- + -chesha (“make someone laugh”) + -i",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From m- + -chesha (“make someone laugh”) + -i.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mcheshi class I",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wacheshi class II",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m-wa"
      },
      "expansion": "mcheshi class I (plural wacheshi class II)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Swahili class I nouns",
        "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swahili lemmas",
        "Swahili nouns",
        "Swahili terms prefixed with m-",
        "Swahili terms suffixed with -i",
        "sw:Comedy",
        "sw:Occupations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a comedian or entertainer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "comedian",
          "comedian"
        ],
        [
          "entertainer",
          "entertainer"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mchekeshaji"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac/Sw-ke-mcheshi.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mcheshi"
}

Download raw JSONL data for mcheshi meaning in Swahili (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). 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.