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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Swahili

name of a Bantu people inhabiting the coast of southeastern Africa, 1814, literally "coast-dwellers," from Arabic sawahil, plural of sahil "coast" + ethnic suffix -i.

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Swahili

Swahili may refer to:

  • Swahili people, an ethnic group in the African Great Lakes region
  • Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili people
  • Swahili language, a Bantu language official in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes
  • Swahili coast, a littoral region in the African Great Lakes

Usage examples of "swahili".

By now, he could speak a very broken and limited English and some oaths in Arabic, Baluchi, Swahili, and Italian, all learned from Burton.

I on the other hand had ostentatiously ordered in Swahili: mogo, otherwise known as cassava, served with a tamarind chutney, brinjal curry, karahi karela, tarka dhal and rotis to show my cosmopolitanism.

The air was thick with tobacco smoke and the cadences of Swahili and Gujarati and Xhosa.

Philip or Philippe, fluent in French, Lingala, but not Swahili, architect of our conference, befriender of the Mwangaza and our delegates.

Though the easy-to-follow assembly holo was indeed in five languages, they turned out to be Telugu, Swahili, Pashto, Malayalam and Hakka.

He had attempted to quell an uprising of the wild Masai and the Swahili.

The Masai and the Swahili will join them in bringing back slavery, the hunting of heads, cannibalism.

The Masai and Swahili, commanded by The Shimba, were ready to join in a quick invasion.

He did not seem to know that the fierce Masai and Swahili warriors were being worked into frenzy for a new descent upon his village.

His English was strange, because he had spoken Swahili and Chinese in his own Earthside schools, but he was very patient and exact about everything.

In the extinct Terran dialect of Swahili, Maasai Laibon means King or Chief of the Maasai, and Tembo Laibon means King or Chief of the Elephants.

Bukoba or Mandaka have any special meaning in the Maasai or Swahili dialects.

I have checked all Swahili and Maasai dictionaries in my language banks, and in those on Deluros VIII.

Shadows moved beyond the curtains and whispers spoke softly amidst the silence in a subtonal language that could have been English or Swahili.

Swahili, the language of a Mohammedan Bantu people of Zanzibar and the East coast of Africa, knowing that they would not understand it.