shoga
Japanese
Romanization
shoga
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Noun
shoga class V (plural mashoga class VI)
- (Tanzania) girlfriend (a woman's close female friend)
- (slang) homosexual man or effeminate man
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- Straface, Vincenzo (2024) “Language, Identity, and Sexuality: Swahili Linguistic Practices Among Self-Identified Gay Men in Dar es Salaam”, in Swahili Forum[1], volume 31, →ISSN, page 44 of 37-57