nambari
Swahili edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English number.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
nambari (n class, plural nambari)
- number (abstract entity)
Derived terms edit
- nambari ya simu (“phone number”)
- nambari ya siri (“PIN”)
References edit
- ^ Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society[1], volume 33, number 3, , page 71 of 61–78: “The entirely new words were all drawn from English, recast into “Swahili” spelling and pronunciation: Equator became ikweta, number became namba, and judge became jaji.”