mahabubu

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَحْبُوب (maḥbūb).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mahabubu (needs class)

1. beloved, darling, lover

   Synonyms: muhibu, mpenzi

References

• Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎^[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 84-85 of 72-103