upendo

Swahili

Alternative forms

pendo, upendi, upenzi

Etymology

From -penda (“love”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /uˈpɛ.ⁿdɔ/
Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

upendo (u class, plural mapendo)

love (emotion, strong affection)

Synonyms

(love: emotion, strong affection): upendezi

References

Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 22, →ISSN, page 78-79 of 72-103

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