saa

Noun

 * 1) tide

Noun

 * 1) sickness, pain

Verb

 * 1) to be sick

Etymology 1
From. Compare.

Postposition

 * 1)  up to, until
 * 2)  all the way to
 * 1)  all the way to


 * 1)  ever since
 * 2)  all the way from

Usage notes

 * In the senses "up to" and "all the way to", may function as a separate case ending, the terminative, which is appended onto an illative stem, rather than the full illative: If the illative were to be followed by the illative markers  or, these markers are dropped. This however varies from speaker to speaker and is not written in the literary language.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  salt

Etymology
Compound of

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1) o'clock

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cow

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) hour
 * 2) clock
 * 3) o'clock

Usage notes
When used to mean an hour, the plural is, in the ma class, to disambiguate from telling time. Times of the day are six hours off from the Western system; the Swahili day starts at 7 am (which becomes 1 o'clock) and the night starts at 7 pm (which becomes 1 o'clock at night).

Noun

 * 1) serpent
 * 2) family

Noun

 * 1) name

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moment, instant

Etymology
From, ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1) period, season, era, semester

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.