swahilienglish.com

Please do not plagiarize. If you would like to use this information in a print or electronic publication, please ask me for permission first and cite this page as:
Knapp, Robbin D. 2012. "Robb: Swahili English". In Robb: Human Languages. Dec. 26, 2012.

This Web site is a dictionary of some Swahili words used in the English language, each with a literal or Swahili meaning, English definition and sometimes actual sample sentence(s) from literature and the Internet.

If you ever see the term Kiswahili, that is not another language; it is simply the Swahili word for Swahili.

Of course there are not as many Swahili loanwords in English as there are, for example, German loanwords.

I have begun with the best-known Swahili word: safari.

If anybody knows any other Swahili words used in English, please let me know.

The entries in this online dictionary may sometimes have alternate definitions which are not given here.

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