mshumaa

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mshumaa

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Borrowed from Arabic شَمْع (šamʕ), شَمَع (šamaʕ), شَمْعَة (šamʕa), and/or شَمَعَة (šamaʕa).

noun mishumaa

  1. class iii candle (a light source)

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MLA

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

APA

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

Chicago

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

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@misc{mshumaa_2026,
  title = {mshumaa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/mshumaa},
  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-mshumaa.flac.