Swahili Vocabulary

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

Source: www.learn101.org