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Swahili|swɑːˈhiːlɪ, swə-|
Also Sowauli, Suhaili, Suaheli, -ele, Swaheli.
[lit. = pertaining to the coasts, f. Arab. sawāḥil, pl. of sāḥil coast. In Fr. souayeli.]
a. A Bantu people (or one of them) inhabiting Zanzibar and the adjacent coast; also, their language, Kiswahili.
b. attrib. or as adj. Hence Swahiˈlese (Sowhylese), Swaˈhilian adjs., of or pertaining to (the) Swahili; Swahilized ppl. a., assimilated to the Swahili.
1814H. Salt Voy. Abyssinia etc. App. i. p. iii, Some sailors attached to an Arab boat, who called themselves Sowauli. Ibid. p. iv, The Sowauli are sometimes called Sowaiel by their northern neighbours the Somauli. 1833W. F. W. Owen's Narr. Voy. Africa, etc. I. xix. 358 The language of these people differs from that of the Sowhylese. Ibid., Every Arab and Sowhyly carries a sword. Ibid. 360 The most wealthy of these Sowhyly states was the Sultany of Patta. 1846J. R. Browne Etchings Whaling Cruise xvi. 335 The Sowhelian language is the most generally spoken. 1847W. W. Greenough in Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. I. 263 The Sooahelee has been called a lingua franca. 1850Latham Nat. Hist. Man 490 The tribes speaking the Suaheli language. 1893D. J. Rankin Zambesi Basin xvi. 268 The Swahili and Swahilised natives. 1907J. H. Patterson Man-Eaters of Tsavo xviii. 194, I had a long talk with him in broken Swahili. |