hotuba

Swahili

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Swahili) IPA(key): /ˈho.tu.ba/, /hoˈtu.ba/
  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

hotuba class IX (plural hotuba class X)

  1. speech
  2. sermon
    Synonym: mahubiri

References

  1. ^ Schadeberg, T. (2009). Swahili vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.