machela

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese machila.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

machela class VI (plural only)

  1. hammock, stretcher, palanquin

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Frederick (1939), A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 252
  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 205 Nr. 583
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