askari

Swahili

noun

Definitions

soldier, guard
police officer

Etymology

Derived from Arabic عَسْكَرِيّ (soldier).

Origin

Arabic

عَسْكَرِيّ

Gloss

soldier

Concept

Semantic Field

Warfare and hunting

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

`Kanji`

兵

Emoji

🪖

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

askari English
Askari German
Lascari Italian
ascaro Italian
askari French
عَسْكَر Arabic
عَسْكَرِيّ Arabic
əsgər Azerbaijani
msilikali Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja
mũthigari Kikuyu, Gikuyu
askari Somali