kamusi

kamusi

1. inflection of kamu:
   1. second-person singular possessive form of nominative/genitive singular
   2. second-person singular possessive form of nominative/accusative plural

• Kuisma, kuisma, muksia

• kambusi

• IPA^(key): /kã.muˈsi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ka‧mu‧si

kamusi (possessable)

1. jug (container for liquids)
2. vase (upright open container)
3. (broadly) any vessel or container
4. (broadly) dish; dishware

   Synonym: nha'ẽ

5. tile (regularly-shaped slab of clay)
6. urn (vessel for the remains of a deceased person)
7. (by extension) cave where those urns were placed

• Nheengatu: kamutí
• → Portuguese: camucim

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kamusi”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 215, columns 1–2

Borrowed from Arabic قَامُوس (qāmūs).

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈmu.si/

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kamusi (n class, plural kamusi)

1. dictionary (publication that explains the meanings of an ordered list of words)

• kamusi in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press