miraa
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Swahili miraa.
Noun
[edit]miraa (uncountable)
- (Africa) Khat.
- 2015 June 27, Jacqueline Kubania, “How Britain's khat ban devastated an entire Kenyan town”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Now that people are no longer making money from miraa, they do not have money to buy food
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[edit]Swahili
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]miraa (m-mi class, plural only)
- khat (leaves)
See also
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- English terms borrowed from Swahili
- English unadapted borrowings from Swahili
- English terms derived from Swahili
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- African English
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- en:Staff vine family plants
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili nouns
- Swahili m-mi class nouns
- Swahili pluralia tantum
- sw:Recreational drugs
- sw:Plants