See yaani in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for yaani meaning in Swahili (1.8kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "يَعْنِي",
"t": "he/she/it means"
},
"expansion": "Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī, “[he/she/it] means”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī, “[he/she/it] means”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "interjection"
},
"expansion": "yaani",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"in other words, actually, namely, to wit, kind of, somewhat, id est, that is, meaning, you know"
],
"id": "en-yaani-sw-intj-qFvhBYnv",
"links": [
[
"in other words",
"in other words"
],
[
"actually",
"actually"
],
[
"namely",
"namely"
],
[
"to wit",
"to wit"
],
[
"kind of",
"kind of"
],
[
"somewhat",
"somewhat"
],
[
"id est",
"id est"
],
[
"that is",
"that is"
],
[
"meaning",
"meaning"
],
[
"you know",
"you know"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(adverbial, conjunctive, prepositional, or adjectival) in other words, actually, namely, to wit, kind of, somewhat, id est, that is, meaning, you know"
],
"tags": [
"adjectival",
"adverbial",
"conjunctive",
"prepositional"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"er, so, uh, well"
],
"id": "en-yaani-sw-intj-2QU9i80o",
"links": [
[
"er",
"er"
],
[
"so",
"so"
],
[
"uh",
"uh"
],
[
"well",
"well"
]
],
"qualifier": "filler",
"raw_glosses": [
"(filler) er, so, uh, well"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-yaani.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/Sw-ke-yaani.flac/Sw-ke-yaani.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/Sw-ke-yaani.flac/Sw-ke-yaani.flac.ogg",
"tags": [
"Kenya"
],
"text": "Audio (Kenya)"
}
],
"word": "yaani"
}
{
"categories": [
"Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
"Swahili interjections",
"Swahili lemmas",
"Swahili terms derived from Arabic",
"Swahili terms with audio links"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "ar",
"3": "يَعْنِي",
"t": "he/she/it means"
},
"expansion": "Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī, “[he/she/it] means”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Arabic يَعْنِي (yaʕnī, “[he/she/it] means”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sw",
"2": "interjection"
},
"expansion": "yaani",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Swahili",
"lang_code": "sw",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"in other words, actually, namely, to wit, kind of, somewhat, id est, that is, meaning, you know"
],
"links": [
[
"in other words",
"in other words"
],
[
"actually",
"actually"
],
[
"namely",
"namely"
],
[
"to wit",
"to wit"
],
[
"kind of",
"kind of"
],
[
"somewhat",
"somewhat"
],
[
"id est",
"id est"
],
[
"that is",
"that is"
],
[
"meaning",
"meaning"
],
[
"you know",
"you know"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(adverbial, conjunctive, prepositional, or adjectival) in other words, actually, namely, to wit, kind of, somewhat, id est, that is, meaning, you know"
],
"tags": [
"adjectival",
"adverbial",
"conjunctive",
"prepositional"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"er, so, uh, well"
],
"links": [
[
"er",
"er"
],
[
"so",
"so"
],
[
"uh",
"uh"
],
[
"well",
"well"
]
],
"qualifier": "filler",
"raw_glosses": [
"(filler) er, so, uh, well"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "Sw-ke-yaani.flac",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/Sw-ke-yaani.flac/Sw-ke-yaani.flac.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b1/Sw-ke-yaani.flac/Sw-ke-yaani.flac.ogg",
"tags": [
"Kenya"
],
"text": "Audio (Kenya)"
}
],
"word": "yaani"
}
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.