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Pronunciation
Noun
kambī m (possessed form kambin)
- crown
Icelandic
Noun
kambi
- indefinite dative singular of kambur
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English camp.[1]
Thilo Schadeberg suggests an Arabic origin ("kanb")[2][3] but that seems unlikely.
Pronunciation
Noun
kambi (n class, plural kambi)
- a camp (an outdoor place, a base, or housing for a group of people)
References
- ^ Batibo, Herman M. (2002) “The Evolution of the Kiswahili Syllable Structure”, in South African Journal of African Language, volume 22, number 1, →DOI, page 4 of 1-10
- ^ Schadeberg, T. (2009). Swahili vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (2009) “Loanwords in Swahili”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 98 of 76-102