nambari

Swahili

Alternative forms

namba

Etymology

Borrowed from English number.[1]

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

nambari (n class, plural nambari)

number (abstract entity)

Derived terms

nambari ya simu (“phone number”)
nambari ya siri (“PIN”)

References

Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society‎, volume 33, number 3, →DOI, page 71 of 61–78: “The entirely new words were all drawn from English, recast into “Swahili” spelling and pronunciation: Equator became ikweta, number became namba, and judge became jaji.”

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.