tumaini

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tumaini

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Arabic طَمِعَ (ṭamiʕa).

verb -tumaini · kutumaini · kutotumaini · tumaini · tumainini

to hope (to want something to happen)
to believe, expect

noun matumaini

class v belief, expectation
class v, in plural, often hope

In English

hope to want something to happen, with expectation that it might

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@misc{tumaini_2026,
  title = {tumaini},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sw/tumaini},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}