Swahili Vocabulary

Welcome to the 9th lesson about the Swahili vocabulary. We're dedicating this page to the most important and most used words in Swahili. For example: clothes, languages, countries, travel, survival words, class, and house components.

shirt shati

sweater sweta

jacket koti

coat koti

socks soksi

shoes viatu

trousers suruali

pajamas pajamas

belt ukanda

underwear chupi

hat kofia

skirt skati

The following words are related to languages and countries.

Language - Swahili - Country - Swahili
Arabic kiarabu
Morocco morocco
Chinese kichina
China uchina
English kiingereza
England uingereza
French kifaransa
France ufaransa
German kijerumani
Germany ujerumani
Greek kigiriki
Greece ugiriki
Portuguese kireno
Portugal ureno
Hindi kihindi
India bara hindi
Italian kiitaliano
Italy italia
Japanese kijapani
Japan japan
Russian kiurusi
Russia urusi
Spanish kihispania
Spain uhispania
Swedish swedish
Sweden sweden

The following vocabulary is related to travel and survival.

Travel - Swahili
airport uwanja wa ndege
doctor daktari
airplane ndege
medicines madawa
train treni
pharmacy duka la dawa
taxi teksi
hospital hospitali
bus basi
ambulance ambulansi
car gari
poison sumu
ticket tiketi
help me nisaidie
hotel hoteli
danger hatari
reservation reservation
accident ajali
passport pasipoti
police polisi
luggage mizigo
headache maumivu ya kichwa
tourism utalii
stomach ache maumivu ya tumbo

The following list of words is related to a class environment and the components of a house.

Class - Swahili
books vitabu
toilet choo
pen kalamu
bed kitanda
dictionary kamusi
bedroom chumba cha kulala
library maktaba
furniture samani
desk dawati
house nyumba
student mwanafunzi
kitchen jikoni
teacher mwalimu
plate sahani
chair kiti
refrigerator jokofu
paper karatasi
room chumba
page ukurasa
table meza
pencil penseli
window dirisha
question swali
television televisheni

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