mahaba

Asi

Etymology

From ma- + haba.

Adjective

mahabà

  1. long

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَحَبَّة (maḥabba).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

mahaba (ma class, plural only)

  1. love, romance
    Synonym: mapenzi

References

  • Baldi, Sergio (2020-11-30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 68 Nr. 580
  • Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015), “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum, volume 22, →ISSN, page 83-84 of 72-103

Tagalog

Etymology

From ma- + haba.

Adjective

mahabà (plural mahahaba)

  1. long

Inflection

    Antonyms

    Derived terms

    • mahaba ang hair

    Tausug

    Adjective

    mahaba

    1. long
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