ashakum

Swahili

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَاشَاكُمْ (ḥāšākum, literally “God forbid you”).[1]

Interjection

ashakum

  1. pardon my French, pardon the expression

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 75 Nr. 654
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