Swahili
noun, plural Swahilis (especially collectively) Swahili for 1.
1.
a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa.
2.
Also, Kiswahili, ki-Swahili. the Bantu language of the Swahili people, used also as a lingua franca in Tanzania, Kenya, and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
noun
1.
Also called Kiswahili. a language of E Africa that is an official language of Kenya and Tanzania and is widely used as a lingua franca throughout E and central Africa. It is a member of the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family, originally spoken in Zanzibar, and has a large number of loan words taken from Arabic and other languages
2.
Also called Mswahili, Waswahili, (pl) -lis, -li. a member of a people speaking this language, living chiefly in Zanzibar
adjective
3.
of or relating to the Swahilis or their language
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