kipenzi
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of mpenzi.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
kipenzi (ki-vi class, plural vipenzi)
- darling, love
- kipenzi changu ― my love
- lover
- a favorite (one that is preferred or liked above all others; most loved)
References edit
- Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 82 of 72-103
Further reading edit
- kipenzi in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press