fanya mapenzi
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From -fanya (“to do”) + mapenzi (“love”).
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
-fanya mapenzi (infinitive kufanya mapenzi)
- (euphemistic) to make love, to have sex
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of -fanya mapenzi: see -fanya.
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 76 of 72-103: “In the corpus there are only a few examples in which the term mapenzi is associated with ‘physical love’, and it mostly occurs in the expression ‘kufanya mapenzi’, (‘to make love’).”