Talk:faraja

Which Arabic?
I have no idea what happened here. Compare also. I had looked at it some months ago already and did not get any better idea. The meaning of about meaning pleased is not too far and I have rather chosen by two consonants + meaning, for lack of alternatives. Maybe has an idea about a dialectal feature or vocabulary that explains the Swahili. By the way, have you Metaknowledge and already seen that there is this whole book explaining mainly Arabic loans in Swahili, Google Books preview of which has been promising, however according to a critique also in need of fancy theories: Krumm, Bernhard (1932): Wörter und Wortformen orientalischen Ursprungs im Suaheli. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter & Co. Krumm, Bernhard (1940): Words of Oriental Origin in Swahili (2nd edition). London: The Sheldon Press ? I could get the German original for 17 € in Germany (one offer I see) but I am not the Swahili student and it has no point for me as long as I cannot add all the words or understand basic Swahili, and besides I am already wan from pervading additions to this website. Fay Freak (talk) 19:31, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Isn't it more plausible that the word came from instead? The /ħ/ → /d͡ʒ~ʄ/ is not something I've seen before, I would take it with a grain of salt without a reliable source. --Emascandam (talk) 22:18, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes. Those meanings there are real, though not too frequent. I thought about this word in the sense of “cracking open”; and the word really means “release” so. Fay Freak (talk) 23:16, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Emascandam; that etymon makes sense., I've read Krumm and it's a terrible source, filled with bad philology and blatant misunderstandings. I was also excited when I first saw it, so it was a major disappointment to me. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 18:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)