shabashi
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Iranian Persian شاباش (šâbâš)
Interjection edit
shabashi
References edit
- Almasi, Oswald, Fallon, Michael David, Nazish, Pardhan Wared (2014) Swahili Grammar for Introductory and Intermediate Levels, Lanham • New York • Oxford: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 373: “Shabashi! or Hongera! – Expresses congratulations, exactly as the English expression “Congratulations!””