nambari
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Swahili
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English number.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
nambari (n class, plural nambari)
- number (abstract entity)
Derived terms
- nambari ya simu (“phone number”)
- nambari ya siri (“PIN”)
References
- ^ Batibo, Herman M. (2002) “The Evolution of the Kiswahili Syllable Structure”, in South African Journal of African Language, volume 22, number 1, , page 4 of 1-10
- ^ Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society, volume 33, number 3, , page 71 of 61–78: “The entirely new words were all drawn from English, recast into “Swahili” spelling and pronunciation: Equator became ikweta, number became namba, and judge became jaji.”