mpendwa

Swahili

Etymology

From m- +‎ -pendwa (“to be loved”).

Pronunciation
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Noun

mpendwa (m-wa class, plural wapendwa)

  1. beloved person, dear

References
  • Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015), “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 22, →ISSN, page 82 of 72-103
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