simba
noun
lion.
Used to refer to the large feline animal.
Forms
- simba
- plural
Examples
Simba amekamatwa.
The lion has been caught.
Simba ananguruma.
The lion is roaring.
Simba ni mnyama mkali.
The lion is a fierce animal.
Tuliona simba mbugani.
We saw a lion in the park.
Simba wawili wamelala.
Two lions are sleeping.
Sauti ya simba inatisha.
The sound of a lion is scary.
Origins
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Sources4
Martin Haspelmath; Uri Tadmor, World Loanword Database CLDF (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2009), wold-master/cldf/forms.csv row 9073.
Morphology and etymology.
Charles Sacleux, Grammaire des dialectes Swahilis (Procure des PP. du Saint-Esprit, 1909), 316.
Example usage.
A. C. Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (Clarendon Press, 1903), 449.
Example usage.
Edward Steere, A Handbook of the Swahili Language as Spoken at Zanzibar (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884), 415.
Definition.
