jasho

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَأْش (jaʔš).

Pronunciation

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Noun

jasho (n class, no plural)

1. sweat (fluid that exits the body through pores)
2. hard work

References

• Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54 Nr. 430
• Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona (2023) “Kiswahili Research in Cognitive and Cultural Linguistics”, in Swahili Forum‎^[1], volume 30, →ISSN, page 205 of 196-214: “While many languages use the metaphor (HARD) WORK IS SWEATING, Kiswahili looks very exceptional with its further extensions of jasho ‘sweat’ which may metonymically stand for ‘work’ or even ‘profit’”