kasuku

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Swahili[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Noun[edit]

kasuku (n class, plural kasuku)

  1. African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)

References[edit]

  • Krumm, Bernhard (1932) Wörter und Wortformen orientalischen Ursprungs im Suaheli[1] (in German), Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Co. m.b.H., →DOI, →ISBN, pages 77–78
  • Walsh, Martin (2019) “Cockatoos and crocodiles: searching for words of Austronesian origin in Swahili”, in Kenya Past and Present[2], number 46, pages 32–40