mpenzi

Swahili

Etymology

From -penda (“love”).

Pronunciation
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Noun

mpenzi (m-wa class, plural wapenzi)

  1. lover (person who loves another person)

References
  • Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015), “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 22, ISSN 1614-2373, page 80-81 of 72-103
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