shuka
verb
to go down.
Use it for getting off a vehicle as well as coming down from a higher place.
Also to get off a vehicle.
Origins
Its earlier history is still under review.
Sources3
Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor (editors), World Loanword Database: Swahili (Max Planck Digital Library, 2009), wold-master/cldf/forms.csv row 32893.
Records going down.
Mzee Morino Tsuneo and Nassor Nakazima Hisasi (editors), ILCAA online lexicon: A dictionary of the Swahili language (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, ILCAA, 1990–1997), +shuka; [T06].
Documents getting down from a vehicle, tree, or building.
Edward Steere, A Handbook of the Swahili Language as Spoken at Zanzibar (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884), PDF page 192.
Documents going or coming down.
Examples
Nashuka hapa.
I'm getting off here.
Utashuka wapi?
Where are you getting off?
Tushuke kituo kijacho.
Let's get off at the next stop.
Shuka polepole, ngazi zinateleza.
Go down slowly, the stairs are slippery.
Nilishuka kwenye matatu mbele ya soko.
I got off the matatu in front of the market.
Usishuke gari likiwa linatembea.
Don't get off while the vehicle is moving.
Abiria wote wameshuka.
All the passengers have got off.
Tulishuka mlima kabla ya giza.
We came down the mountain before dark.
Dereva, nataka kushuka hapa mbele.
Driver, I want to get off just up ahead.
