dhiki

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dhiki

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Borrowed from Arabic ضِيق (ḍīq).

noun dhiki

  1. class ix distress

verb -dhiki · kudhiki · kutodhiki · dhiki · dhikini

  1. to distress, afflict

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"dhiki." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sw/dhiki. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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dhiki. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sw/dhiki

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"dhiki." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sw/dhiki.

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@misc{dhiki_2026,
  title = {dhiki},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/dhiki},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Sw-ke-dhiki.flac.