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mafuta
a word from vocabulary
Swahili
by
Thilo Schadeberg
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Word form
mafuta
LWT meaning(s)
the oil
the grease or fat
the petroleum
Word meaning
oil, fat, grease
Grammatical info
n 6
Comments on word
mafuta ya taa [oil of lamp]; mafuta ghafi, crude oil
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
earlier Bantu [1] (-3000–1)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
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