ashiki
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عِشْق (ʕišq).
Noun
ashiki (needs class)
- strong desire, affection
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 87-88 of 72-103