The story
- Arabic · derived fromسَوَاحِلِيّ“(people) of the coasts”
- Swahili · borrowed fromMswahili
- English todaySwahili
Borrowed from Swahili Mswahili / Kiswahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.