nahau

Hawaiian

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Fijian gasau simulating inheritance from Proto-Polynesian *ŋasau (cognate with Tongan ngahau).

Noun

nahau

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See also
  • pua pana

References
  • Schütz, Albert J. (2019) Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 266

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَحْو (naḥw).

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

nahau (n class, plural nahau)

  1. idiom (established expression whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its component words)
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