bweta

Bangi

Noun

bweta

  1. waterfall

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese boceta, from Old Galician-Portuguese buxeta.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

bweta class V (plural mabweta class VI)

  1. small box

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Frederick (1939), A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44
  2. ^ 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 127 Nr. 189
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