Swahili

大学

斯瓦希里语

发音

UK /swəˈhiːli/
其它
US /swɑˈhili/
US /swəˈhili/

词形变化

Swahilis 复数 Swahilis

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast.

name
  1. 1.

    An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.

    斯瓦希里语

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

Bantu

相关短语

Settler Swahili

词源

Borrowed from Swahili Mswahili / Kiswahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”).

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