upendo
Swahili edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From -penda (“love”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
upendo (u class, plural mapendo)
- love (emotion, strong affection)
Synonyms edit
- (love: emotion, strong affection): upendezi
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 78-79 of 72-103