shwari

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Swahili

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شُووَار (šūwār, calm sea).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

shwari (invariable)

  1. calm, quiet (free of noise and disturbance)

References

  1. ^ Schadeberg, T. (2009). Swahili vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.