jinsia

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jinsia

Where it comes from

Seemingly from Arabic جِنْسِيَّة (jinsiyya), although جِنْس (jins) (whence Swahili jinsi) is the usual word for "gender".

noun jinsia

  1. class ix gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else)

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

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

Chicago

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

BibTeX
@misc{jinsia_2026,
  title = {jinsia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/jinsia},
  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-jinsia.flac.