soksi

• sokisi

Borrowed from English socks.

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soksi class IX (plural soksi class X)

1. sock
   • 2017 October 10, “Hatari ya kuvalia viatu bila soksi”, in BBC News Swahili‎^[1]:

     Jaribu pia kuweka kitu cha kukausha jasho kwenye soli ya kiatu chako kabla ya kukivalia bila soksi.

     Also try putting a sweat wicking agent on the sole of your shoe before wearing it without socks.

2. (slang) condom

   Synonym: kondomu

• Straface, Vincenzo (2024) “Language, Identity, and Sexuality: Swahili Linguistic Practices Among Self-Identified Gay Men in Dar es Salaam”, in Swahili Forum‎^[2], volume 31, →ISSN, page 50 of 37-57: “Soksi is clearly an English loan from “socks”, […] , and it can be directly related to something that covers and protects a part of the body.”