"meya" meaning in Swahili

See meya in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-meya.flac Forms: mameya [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from English mayor. Etymology templates: {{bor+|sw|en|mayor}} Borrowed from English mayor Head templates: {{head|sw|noun|head=}} meya, {{sw-noun|ma}} meya (ma class, plural mameya)
  1. mayor Wikipedia link: sw:meya Tags: class-5, class-6 Categories (topical): Government, Leaders, Occupations
    Sense id: en-meya-sw-noun-3VGoJdBq Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Swahili entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "mayor"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English mayor",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English mayor.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mameya",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "meya",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "meya (ma class, plural mameya)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 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"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sw",
          "name": "Government",
          "orig": "sw:Government",
          "parents": [
            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sw",
          "name": "Leaders",
          "orig": "sw:Leaders",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Human",
            "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": [
        "mayor"
      ],
      "id": "en-meya-sw-noun-3VGoJdBq",
      "links": [
        [
          "mayor",
          "mayor"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "class-5",
        "class-6"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sw:meya"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-meya.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/Sw-ke-meya.flac/Sw-ke-meya.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/Sw-ke-meya.flac/Sw-ke-meya.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meya"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "mayor"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English mayor",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English mayor.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mameya",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "meya",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "meya (ma class, plural mameya)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swahili lemmas",
        "Swahili ma class nouns",
        "Swahili nouns",
        "Swahili terms borrowed from English",
        "Swahili terms derived from English",
        "sw:Government",
        "sw:Leaders",
        "sw:Occupations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mayor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mayor",
          "mayor"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "class-5",
        "class-6"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sw:meya"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-meya.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/Sw-ke-meya.flac/Sw-ke-meya.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/Sw-ke-meya.flac/Sw-ke-meya.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "meya"
}

Download raw JSONL data for meya meaning in Swahili (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.