See wakili in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for wakili meaning in Swahili (2.3kB)
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"tags": [
"causative",
"verb"
],
"word": "-wakilisha"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"tags": [
"stative",
"verb"
],
"word": "-wakilika"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "وَكِيل",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "وَكِيل"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "و ك ل"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mawakili",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "noun",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "wakili",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ma"
},
"expansion": "wakili (ma class, plural mawakili)",
"name": "sw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "65 35",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "sw",
"name": "Legal occupations",
"orig": "sw:Legal occupations",
"parents": [
"Law",
"Occupations",
"Justice",
"People",
"Work",
"Society",
"Human",
"Human activity",
"All topics",
"Human behaviour",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"lawyer, attorney (professional person authorized to practice law)"
],
"id": "en-wakili-sw-noun-JFOFlY-g",
"links": [
[
"lawyer",
"lawyer"
],
[
"attorney",
"attorney"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mwanasheria"
}
],
"tags": [
"class-5",
"class-6"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"agent, representative"
],
"id": "en-wakili-sw-noun-rNReuZEw",
"links": [
[
"agent",
"agent"
],
[
"representative",
"representative"
]
],
"tags": [
"class-5",
"class-6"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-wakili.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e7/Sw-ke-wakili.flac/Sw-ke-wakili.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e7/Sw-ke-wakili.flac/Sw-ke-wakili.flac.ogg",
"tags": [
"Kenya"
],
"text": "Audio (Kenya)"
}
],
"word": "wakili"
}
{
"categories": [
"Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"Swahili lemmas",
"Swahili ma class nouns",
"Swahili nouns",
"Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic",
"Swahili terms derived from Arabic",
"Swahili terms derived from the Arabic root و ك ل",
"Swahili terms with audio links",
"sw:Legal occupations"
],
"derived": [
{
"tags": [
"causative",
"verb"
],
"word": "-wakilisha"
},
{
"tags": [
"stative",
"verb"
],
"word": "-wakilika"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed",
"name": "glossary"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "وَكِيل",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "وَكِيل"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "و ك ل"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic وَكِيل (wakīl).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "mawakili",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "noun",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "wakili",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ma"
},
"expansion": "wakili (ma class, plural mawakili)",
"name": "sw-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"lawyer, attorney (professional person authorized to practice law)"
],
"links": [
[
"lawyer",
"lawyer"
],
[
"attorney",
"attorney"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "mwanasheria"
}
],
"tags": [
"class-5",
"class-6"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"agent, representative"
],
"links": [
[
"agent",
"agent"
],
[
"representative",
"representative"
]
],
"tags": [
"class-5",
"class-6"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-wakili.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e7/Sw-ke-wakili.flac/Sw-ke-wakili.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e7/Sw-ke-wakili.flac/Sw-ke-wakili.flac.ogg",
"tags": [
"Kenya"
],
"text": "Audio (Kenya)"
}
],
"word": "wakili"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c 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.
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.