kipenzi

Swahili

Etymology

Diminutive of mpenzi.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

kipenzi (ki-vi class, plural vipenzi)

1. darling, love

   kipenzi changu ― my love

2. lover
3. a favorite (one that is preferred or liked above all others; most loved)

References

• 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

• kipenzi in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press