zeituni

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Swahili[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic زَيْتُون (zaytūn).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun[edit]

zeituni (n class, plural zeituni)

  1. olive

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎[1], volume 10, number 1, page 2 of 1-10: “Swahili, however, uses the Portuguese borrowing pera for ‘guava’ and has zeituni ~ zaituni for ‘olive’, from StAr zaytūn, implying that the Omanis did not bring olives to Africa and, as a result, Swahili turned to a different variety of Arabic for a borrowing.”
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