msikiti

Chichewa

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /m.siˈki.tí/

Noun

msikití class 3 (plural misikití class 4)

  1. Alternative form of mzikiti

Swahili

Etymology

An old borrowing from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid),[1] specifically from an Arabic dialect with /ɡ/.[2]

Pronunciation
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Noun

msikiti (m-mi class, plural misikiti)

  1. mosque (a place of worship for Muslims)

Descendants
  • → Kamba: mũsikiti
  • → Luganda: omuzikiti
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: umusigiti
  • → Yao: msikiti

References
  1. 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 139 Nr. 1252
  2. Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎, volume 10, number 1, page 2 of 1-10: “Another early loan is msikiti ‘mosque’, where the /k/ is also assumed to reflect original /g/”
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