tangawizi
Swahili
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Omani Arabic تَنْجْوِيل (tangwīl), from Arabic زَنْجَبِيل (zanjabīl).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittangawizi (n class, plural tangawizi)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica[1], volume 10, number 1, page 8 of 1-10: “‘Ginger’, Sw tangawizi. From OAr, donor dialect probably *tangwīz; tangwī́l (N: 21) is close, and the word is absent from Reinhardt (1894). The form zangabil (M: 291) is evidently a recent borrowing from StAr zanjabil.”