ikweta

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English equator.[1]

Pronunciation
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Noun

ikweta (n class, plural ikweta)

  1. equator
    Synonym: istiwai

References
  1. Bolton, Caitlyn (2016) “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographiic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar”, in American Journal of Islam and Society‎, volume 33, number 3, →DOI, page 71 of 61–78: “The entirely new words were all drawn from English, recast into “Swahili” spelling and pronunciation: Equator became ikweta, number became namba, and judge became jaji.”
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