nahau

Hawaiian

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Fijian gasau simulating inheritance from Proto-Polynesian *ŋasau (cognate with Tongan ngahau).

Noun

nahau

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See also

  • pua pana

References

  • Schütz, Albert J. (2019), Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 266

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَحْو (naḥw).[1]

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

nahau class IX (plural nahau class X)

  1. idiom (established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words)
  2. grammar
    Synonym: sarufi

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 287 Nr. 2706
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