batela

Bangi

Verb

batela

  1. to defend

French

Pronunciation

Verb

batela

  1. third-person singular past historic of bateler

Lingala

Etymology

Borrowed from Bangi batela.

Verb

-batela (infinitive kobatela)

  1. to defend

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese batel[1] or Hindustani.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

batela class IX (plural batela class X)

  1. small boat

References

  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (16 October 2023), Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture; 40), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 123 Nr. 166
  2. ^ Johnson, Frederick (1939), A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 31
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