Wörterbuch Deutsch-Swahili

Vollständig durchgesehene, verbesserte Neuauflage

Author: Karsten Legère.

The present dictionary contains about 15,000  keywords from the domains everyday life, politics, economy, culture, and sports as well as a plenitude of phrases and idiomatic sayings/proverbs. This vocabulary was supplemented by terms which follow from the natural environmental conditions of the target language.

The basis of a number of the German keywords are pertinent loan translations and transferences, just as they are bruited about in Swahili-speaking material. Own translation variations are not marked, since there is no difference to the usual practised approach of renditions of terms of non-African origin.

The handling of German keywords, which are unknown and whose images have no direct (Swahili) equivalent in the East-African region (f.i. cowboy, luge, polar bear, snowboard), caused difficulties. Such keywords belong for example to the European fauna and flora or to winter sports. In such cases it was tried to find a comparable image and its denotation in Swahili, complemented by the corresponding English term.

The number of users of the present dictionary is due to the great relevance of the Swahili language in the whole East- and Central-African region. Thus, the work is applicable for German-speaking people living and/or working in Swahili-speaking areas as well as for Swahili-speaking persons staying in German-speaking countries.

Under the links at the bottom you can download some example pages.

Under these links you will find further reading and teaching material for learning Swahili, as well as historical and modern text editions and literature analyses:

Accompanying material:

• A Sketch of Swahili Morphology (ISBN 978-3-927620-16-2)
• Arbeitsvokabular Deutsch–Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-981-7)
• Classes in Kiswahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-022-7)
• Hör- und Sprechtexte zum Swahili Übungsbuch (Audio-CD) (ISBN 978-3-89645-574-1)
• Les extensions verbales en swahili standard (ISBN 978-3-89645-907-7)
• Swahili Grundkurs (ISBN 978-3-89645-002-9)
• Swahili Grundkurs mit Swahili Übungsbuch und Audiomaterial (ISBN 978-3-89645-575-8)
• Swahili Grundkurs und Übungsbuch (ISBN 978-3-89645-582-6)
• Swahili Phonology Reconsidered in a Diachronical Perspective (ISBN 978-3-927620-38-4)
• Swahili Übungsbuch (ISBN 978-3-89645-003-6)
• Swahili-Handbuch (ISBN 978-3-927620-06-3)
• Transitivity in Swahili (ISBN 978-3-927620-37-7)
• Transitivität und Verbvalenz im Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-712-7)
• Wörterbuch Swahili-Deutsch (ISBN 978-3-89645-165-1)

Cross-reference:

• Beyond the Language Issue (ISBN 978-3-89645-819-3)
• Dunia Yao – Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction (ISBN 978-3-89645-736-3)
• Encoding Emotions in Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-715-8)
• Framing Texts – Framing Social Spaces (ISBN 978-3-89645-742-4)
• Gesprächsstrategien im Swahili (ISBN 978-3-927620-41-4)
• Life and Poems of Bi Zainab Himid (1920–2002) / Maisha na Tungo za Bi Zainab Himid (1920–2002) (ISBN 978-3-89645-286-3)
• Liyongo Songs (ISBN 978-3-89645-172-9)
• Muhamadi Kijuma (ISBN 978-3-89645-174-3)
• Rewriting Yusuf (ISBN 978-3-89645-177-4)
• Semantic Assignment Rules in Bantu Classes (ISBN 978-3-89645-703-5)
• Swahili Plants (ISBN 978-3-927620-89-6)
• Swahili Proverbs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISBN 978-3-89645-744-8)
• Texte auf Textilien in Ostafrika (ISBN 978-3-89645-266-5)
• The Voice of the Text and its Body (ISBN 978-3-89645-739-4)
• Unser Leben vor der Revolution und danach – Maisha yetu kabla ya mapinduzi na baadaye (ISBN 978-3-89645-274-0)
• Wörterbuch Swahili-Deutsch / Deutsch-Swahili (ISBN 978-3-89645-197-2)

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