rafiky

Malagasy

Etymology

Either borrowed from Swahili rafiki or its source Arabic رَفِيق (rafīq, “companion”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raˈfiki/, [rḁˈfikʲ]

Noun

rafiky

  1. friend

References

  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 731 of 717-746
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