mahabubu
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَحْبُوب (maḥbūb).
Noun
mahabubu (needs class)
- 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, volume 22, ISSN 1614-2373, page 84-85 of 72-103