mpenzi
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From -penda (“love”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
mpenzi (m-wa class, plural wapenzi)
- lover (person who loves another person)
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 80-81 of 72-103