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bweta

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Bangi

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Noun

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bweta

  1. waterfall

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Portuguese boceta, from Old Galician-Portuguese buxeta.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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bweta class V (plural mabweta class VI)

  1. small box

References

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  1. ^ Johnson, Frederick (1939), A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44
  2. ^ Baldi, Sergio (16 October 2023), Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture; 40), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 127 Nr. 189
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