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Swahilian

Meaning of "Swahilian" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SWAHILIAN

swɑːˈhiːlɪən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWAHILIAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Swahilian is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SWAHILIAN

anthelion · aphelian · aphelion · Aristotelian · Aurelian · Caelian · Chamaeleon · chameleon · cornelian · Delian · epitrachelion · Karelian · Mendelian · Mephistophelian · Mingrelian · mycelian · paranthelion · parhelion · Pelion · perihelion

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWAHILIAN

Swahili · swain · swaining · swainish · swainishness · swale · Swaledale · SWALK

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWAHILIAN

Australian · Azilian · Basilian · bilian · Brazilian · caecilian · Castilian · civilian · crocodilian · exilian · Ismailian · lacertilian · Maximilian · perfectibilian · postexilian · Quintilian · reptilian · Sicilian · Vergilian · vespertilian · Virgilian

Synonyms and antonyms of Swahilian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Swahilian» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SWAHILIAN

Find out the translation of Swahilian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Swahilian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Swahilian» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

Swahilian
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

Swahilian
570 millions of speakers
en

English

Swahilian
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Swahilian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Swahilian
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Swahilian
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

Swahilian
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

Swahilian
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Swahilian
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Swahilian
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Swahilian
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

Swahilian
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

Swahilian
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Swahilian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Swahilian
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Swahilian
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

स्वाहिलीयन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Swahilian
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

Swahilian
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

Swahilian
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Swahilian
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

Swahilian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Swahilian
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Swahilian
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Swahilian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Swahilian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Swahilian

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWAHILIAN»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of Swahilian
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Swahilian».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Swahilian

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWAHILIAN»

Discover the use of Swahilian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Swahilian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bothalia
Floristically the study area falls within the Swahilian/Maputaland Regional Transition Zone. In total, 238 woody species and infraspecific taxa have been recorded, representing 59 families and 1 67 genera. Most species (64%) occur both to the ...
‎2006
2
Journal of East African Natural History
The term "Swahilian region sensu lato" encompasses both this regional centre of endemism and the adjacent "Swahilian/Maputaland regional transition zone" to the south. Because of the particular geographic concentrations of vascular plant ...
‎2005
3
Literary Arts Journal
He swallows your Swahilian aphrodisiac and marries an ancient crab before the snowfall. Anahid OXYMORON Sleeping under the sun so long, the flush of fervered nimbus seepings bites and tingles, chilling the flesh. In a field of unmown ...
‎1976
4
Mission Life; Or Home and Foreign Church Work
We need only add that, as far as a critic unversed iu Swahilian may pronounce judgment, the translation appears to have been made with due regard to preserving fidelity to the original. The Central African Mission will owe a lasting debt of ...
‎1870
5
Ebony
... Shape A Child's World." PUYskcPL Playskool Manufacturing Company 3720 No. Kedzie Ave./Chicago, III. 60618. Duke. Natural. For. men. who. wear. it. like. it . is. The Duke Swahilian The Duke Playboy The Duke Professional WESIMORE.
6
World Musics in Context: A Comprehensive Survey of the ...
Intermarriage between Arab settlers and Africans led to an indigenous blend of Arab and Bantu elements, exemplified in the growth of a new language, Swahili (' coastal'); this, in turn, led to a distinctively Swahilian repertoire of legends and ...
Peter Fletcher, 2004
7
Shrink
Some Black students rejected demands to study French, German, and Spanish in favour of more culturally relevant classes in Swahilian – in much the same way that previous generations argued that Latin and Greek were obsolete.
David Wolgroch, 2011
8
Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family
All are now ignored for the new African, the Swahilian and Muslim — the Rashi- das, Nadiyahs, or Shamekas. In one county birth report for a single week, the following given names appeared: Taheerah, Samiyah, Ayeasha, Je'nai, Tanesha  ...
Malcolm Bell, Jr., 2004
9
The True and the False: The Domain of the Pragmatic
By definition, then, an English sentence 5, for example, cannot be a French or Swahilian sentence, or occur as part of any other language. Wherever it occurs it means just and only what English determines that it means. If meaning something ...
Charles Travis, 1981
10
Environmental Policies in the Third World: A Comparative ...
Though it would be misleading to equate all precolonial African history with sustainable development, Africans have a long cultural history that has usually incorporated the environment as a central feature of life. The Swahilian term mazingira, ...
O. P. Dwivedi, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi, 1995

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWAHILIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Swahilian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Beers and shears: have we found the perfect haircut mix?
... Garejure - Armenian; Immiaarag - Greenlandic; Labiera - Madagascan; Maekju - Korean; Pia - Samoan; Pijiu - Mandarin; Pivo - Russian; Pombe - Swahilian ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 13»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Swahilian [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/swahilian>. May 2024 ».
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