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Amanab
Noun
rafu
- pumpkin
Swahili
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic رَفّ (raff).
Noun
rafu (n class, plural rafu)
- shelf
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English rough.[1]
Noun
rafu (n class, plural rafu)
- (colloquial, figurative) roughness
References
- ^ Batibo, Herman M. (1996) “Loanword clusters nativization rules in Tswana and Swahili: a comparative study”, in South African Journal of African Language, volume 16, number 2, →DOI, page 38 of 33-41