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SWAHILI · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

kambi.

a camp (an outdoor place, a base, or housing for a group of people)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Kiswahili language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. a camp (an outdoor place, a base, or housing for a group of people)

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Where this word comes from

Possibly borrowed from English camb. Thilo Schadeberg suggests an Arabic origin ("kanb") but that seems unlikely.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.