kasuku

Swahili

Etymology

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Pronunciation
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Noun

kasuku (n class, plural kasuku)

  1. African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)

References
  • Krumm, Bernhard (1932) Wörter und Wortformen orientalischen Ursprungs im Suaheli‎ (in German), Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Co. m.b.H., →DOI, →ISBN, pages 77–78
  • Walsh, Martin (2019) “Cockatoos and crocodiles: searching for words of Austronesian origin in Swahili”, in Kenya Past and Present‎, number 46, pages 32–40
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