jina la utani

Swahili

Noun

jina la utani (ma class, plural majina ya utani)

  1. nickname

References
  • Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎, volume 5, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 90 of 85-107: “The first involves purely target language morphemes to express new concepts like jina la utani ‘nickname’ which stems from the East African concept of utani ‘joking relationship’.”
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