ashiki

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِشْق (ʕišq).

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

ashiki (needs class)

strong desire, affection
libido
Synonyms: nyege, libido

References

Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 22, →ISSN, page 87-88 of 72-103

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