irabu
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Swahili[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic إِعْرَاب (ʔiʕrāb).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun[edit]
irabu (n class, plural irabu)
Derived terms[edit]
- nusuirabu (“semivowel”)
References[edit]
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 204 Nr. 1829
- ^ Harvey, Andrew (2014) “Epenthetic Vowels in Swahili Loanwords”, in Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education[1], volume 8, number 2, page 19 of 17-45: “Ar. iarab [iara:b] -> Sw. irabu [irabu] ‘vowel’”