rafu

Amanab

Noun

rafu

  1. pumpkin

Japanese

Romanization

rafu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of らふ

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic رَفّ (raff).[1]

Noun

rafu class IX (plural rafu class X)

  1. shelf

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rough.[2]

Noun

rafu class IX (plural rafu class X)

  1. (colloquial, figurative) roughness

References

  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 123 Nr. 1097
  2. ^ Batibo, Herman M. (1996) “Loanword clusters nativization rules in Tswana and Swahili: a comparative study”, in South African Journal of African Language‎[1], volume 16, number 2, →DOI, page 38 of 33-41
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.