parafujo

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese parafuso.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

parafujo class IX (plural parafujo class X)

  1. screw
    Synonym: skrubu
  2. spiral, something screw-shaped

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Frederick (1939), A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367
  2. ^ Rechenbach, Charles W. (1967), Swahili-English Dictionary, Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, page 429
  3. ^ 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 227 Nr. 693
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