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kahawa
a word from vocabulary
Swahili
by
Thilo Schadeberg
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Word form
kahawa
LWT meaning(s)
the coffee
Word meaning
coffee
Grammatical info
n 9/10
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
pre-modern Swahili [1] (800–1940)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Source words
qahwa(t)
'coffee'
Arabic
qahvā
'coffee'
Hindi-Urdu
Effect
Insertion
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
Indian Ocean [1]
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