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Kiswahili

Kiswahili proper noun: swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.

Proper noun

Kiswahili

  1. Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
    • The national language of the Republic is Kiswahili.2010, Parliament of Kenya, “Chapter 2, Article 7(1)”, in Constitution of Kenya, 2010, page 14
    Synonyms:
    Swahili

Synonyms of Kiswahili

Origin of Kiswahili

Borrowed from Swahili Kiswahili, from ki- + Arabic سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil).

Questions about Kiswahili

What does Kiswahili mean?
Kiswahili means swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
What part of speech is Kiswahili?
Kiswahili is a proper noun.

Words near Kiswahili in the dictionary

  1. kistvaen
  2. kistvaens
  3. Kisumu
  4. kiswa
  5. kiswah
  6. Kiswahili
  7. kiswahs
  8. kiswas
  9. kit
  10. kit and caboodle
  11. kit and kaboodle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kiswahili (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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