"zao" meaning in Swahili

See zao in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: Sw-ke-zao.flac
Etymology: From -zaa. Head templates: {{head|sw|adjective form}} zao
  1. [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((X))]] inflected form of -ao
    Sense id: en-zao-sw-adj-QM2PHpFd

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-zao.flac Forms: zao class V [canonical], mazao class VI [plural]
Etymology: From -zaa. Head templates: {{sw-noun|ma}} zao class V (plural mazao class VI)
  1. offspring
    Sense id: en-zao-sw-noun-bPXuCc6h Categories (other): Swahili entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Swahili entries with incorrect language header: 18 47 35
  2. (in the plural) produce, crops Tags: in-plural
    Sense id: en-zao-sw-noun-i3xu~rmm

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From -zaa.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zao class V",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mazao class VI",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "zao class V (plural mazao class VI)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 47 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "offspring"
      ],
      "id": "en-zao-sw-noun-bPXuCc6h",
      "links": [
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "produce, crops"
      ],
      "id": "en-zao-sw-noun-i3xu~rmm",
      "links": [
        [
          "produce",
          "produce"
        ],
        [
          "crops",
          "crops"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in the plural) produce, crops"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-zao.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zao"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From -zaa.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "adjective form"
      },
      "expansion": "zao",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((X))]] inflected form of -ao"
      ],
      "id": "en-zao-sw-adj-QM2PHpFd",
      "links": [
        [
          "-ao",
          "ao#Swahili"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-zao.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zao"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Swahili adjective forms",
    "Swahili class V nouns",
    "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
    "Swahili lemmas",
    "Swahili non-lemma forms",
    "Swahili nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From -zaa.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zao class V",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mazao class VI",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ma"
      },
      "expansion": "zao class V (plural mazao class VI)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "offspring"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "produce, crops"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "produce",
          "produce"
        ],
        [
          "crops",
          "crops"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in the plural) produce, crops"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-zao.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zao"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Swahili adjective forms",
    "Swahili class V nouns",
    "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
    "Swahili lemmas",
    "Swahili non-lemma forms",
    "Swahili nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From -zaa.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "adjective form"
      },
      "expansion": "zao",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((X))]] inflected form of -ao"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "-ao",
          "ao#Swahili"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-zao.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d8/Sw-ke-zao.flac/Sw-ke-zao.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "zao"
}

Download raw JSONL data for zao meaning in Swahili (1.8kB)

{
  "called_from": "page/1412",
  "msg": "gloss may contain unhandled list items: [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#N class|n class_((X))]] inflected form of -ao",
  "path": [
    "zao"
  ],
  "section": "Swahili",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "zao",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). 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.