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kambi

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kám.bíː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [kám.bíː]

Noun

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kambī m (possessed form kambin)

  1. crown

Icelandic

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Noun

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kambi

  1. indefinite dative singular of kambur

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English camp.[1]

Thilo Schadeberg suggests an Arabic origin ("kanb")[2][3] but that seems unlikely.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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kambi (n class, plural kambi)

  1. a camp (an outdoor place, a base, or housing for a group of people)

References

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  1. ^ Batibo, Herman M. (2002) “The Evolution of the Kiswahili Syllable Structure”, in South African Journal of African Language‎[1], volume 22, number 1, →DOI, page 4 of 1-10
  2. ^ Schadeberg, T. (2009). Swahili vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ^ Schadeberg, Thilo C. (2009) “Loanwords in Swahili”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 98 of 76-102
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