kipenzi

Swahili

Etymology

Diminutive of mpenzi.

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

kipenzi (ki-vi class, plural vipenzi)

darling, love
kipenzi changu ― my love
lover
a favorite (one that is preferred or liked above all others; most loved)

References

Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎, volume 22, →ISSN, page 82 of 72-103

Further reading

kipenzi in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press

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