kipenzi

Diminutive of mpenzi.

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kipenzi class VII (plural vipenzi class VIII)

1. darling, love

   kipenzi changu ― my love

2. lover
3. a favorite (one that is preferred or liked above all others; most loved)

• Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎^[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 82 of 72-103

• kipenzi in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press