upendo

Swahili

Alternative forms

• pendo, upendi, upenzi

Etymology

From u- +‎ -penda (“to love”) +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈpɛ.ⁿdɔ/

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Noun

upendo (u class, plural mapendo)

1. love (emotion, strong affection)

Synonyms

• (love: emotion, strong affection): upendezi

References

• Tramutoli, Rosanna (2015) “'Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis”, in Swahili Forum‎^[1], volume 22, →ISSN, page 78-79 of 72-103