mpenzi

Swahili

Etymology

From m- +‎ -penda (“to love”) +‎ -zi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mpenzi class I (plural wapenzi class II)

1. lover, beloved, darling, sweetheart

References

• Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015), “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 22, →ISSN, page 80-81 of 72-103