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