Malagasy

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Etymology

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Either borrowed from Swahili zamani or its source Arabic زَمَن (zaman), زَمَان (zamān, time).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /zaˈmani/, [zḁˈmanʲ]

Adjective

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zamany

  1. ancient

References

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  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, page 731.