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serikali
a word from vocabulary
Swahili
by
Thilo Schadeberg
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Word form
serikali
LWT meaning(s)
the government
Word meaning
government
Grammatical info
n 9/10
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
pre-modern Swahili [1] (800–1940)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Source words
sarkār
'court of a prince'
Arabic
Unidentifiable
Persian
sar-kār
'government'
Hindi-Urdu
sarkārī
'government'
Persian
Effect
Insertion
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
Indian Ocean [1]
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