rwabe
noun
two hundred shillings.
Rwabe means two hundred shillings and can refer to a two-hundred-shilling note.
Origins
The word’s earlier history is still under review.
Sources3
Youth Health and Psychosocial Support Program, Guide to Key Resources for Psychosocial Welfare of LGBT Youth in Nairobi (2015), p. 7, Communication.
Two hundred shillings in Sheng.
Nathan Oyori Ogechi, On Lexicalization in Sheng (2005), p. 342.
A two-hundred-Kenyan-shilling note.; The banknote use is specifically monetary, rather than a general word for the number two hundred.
Chege Githiora, Sheng: peer language, Swahili dialect or emerging Creole? (2002), p. 181.
Two hundred shillings in Sheng.
Examples
Nina rwabe.
I have two hundred shillings.
Una rwabe?
Do you have two hundred shillings?
Nahitaji rwabe.
I need two hundred shillings.
Bei ni rwabe.
The price is two hundred shillings.
Nimelipa rwabe.
I have paid two hundred shillings.
Nimetuma rwabe.
I have sent two hundred shillings.
Nimepata rwabe.
I have received two hundred shillings.
Nauli ni rwabe.
The fare is two hundred shillings.
Chenji ni rwabe.
The change is two hundred shillings.
