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popoo
a word from vocabulary
Swahili
by
Thilo Schadeberg
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Word form
popoo
LWT meaning(s)
the nut
Word meaning
betel nut — from the areca palm (a nut in the culinary sense)
Grammatical info
n 9/10
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
pre-modern Swahili [1] (800–1940)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
2. probably borrowed
Source words
fawfal
'areca nut'
Arabic
pūpal
'areca nut'
Hindi-Urdu
fūfal
'areca nut'
Persian
foroforo
'areca nut'
Malagasy
Effect
Insertion
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
Indian Ocean [1]
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