"dawa" meaning in Swahili

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Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-dawa.flac Forms: madawa [singular]
  1. Médicament, remède.
    Sense id: fr-dawa-sw-noun-aRIJwNtJ Categories (other): Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en swahili
  2. Panacée. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: fr-dawa-sw-noun-5ScFR8n6 Categories (other): Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en swahili
  3. Amulette, talisman.
    Sense id: fr-dawa-sw-noun-SXFfINX4 Categories (other): Lexique en swahili de l’occultisme, Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en swahili Topics: occultism
  4. Herbicide.
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dawa ya mapenzi, dawa ya meno, dawa ya mitishamba, dawa ya mswaki, dawa ya uwongo, dawa ya viatu, dawa ya wadudu
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