ashiki

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عِشْق (ʕišq).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ashiki (needs class)

1. strong desire, affection
2. libido

   Synonyms: nyege, libido

References

• Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎^[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 87-88 of 72-103