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 | Survival | 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 | House | 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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