hotuba

Swahili

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Swahili) IPA(key): /ˈho.tu.ba/, /hoˈtu.ba/
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

hotuba (n class, plural hotuba)

  1. speech
  2. sermon
    Synonym: mahubiri

References
  1. Schadeberg, T. (2009). Swahili vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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