"mtoto" meaning in Swahili

See mtoto in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-mtoto.flac [Kenya] Forms: watoto [plural]
Head templates: {{head|sw|noun|head=}} mtoto, {{sw-noun|wa}} mtoto (m-wa class, plural watoto)
  1. child (very young person) Wikipedia link: sw:mtoto Tags: class-1, class-2 Categories (topical): People Synonyms: mwana (english: particularly when speaking of relatedness) Related terms: toto, utoto, kitoto

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for mtoto meaning in Swahili (1.7kB)

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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 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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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