Where does “suaíli” come from?
suaíli (Portuguese) comes from English Swahili, from Swahili Mswahili, from Swahili m-, from Arabic سَوَاحِل, from Arabic سَاحِل — coast; boundary, coast; border of the desert.
suaíli (Portuguese): Swahili; of the Swahili language
Definitions
- Swahili; of the Swahili language
Ancestry of “suaíli”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Swahili | An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch... |
| 2 | Swahili | Mswahili | — |
| 3 | Swahili | m- | The prefix for noun class 1 denoting humans; The... |
| 4 | Arabic | سَوَاحِل | coastal dwellers |
| 5 | Arabic | سَاحِل | coast; boundary, coast; border of the desert |
Words derived from “suaíli”