Similarities Between Arabic and Swahili
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Swahili is a Bantu language native to the east coast of Africa, primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, Comoros, Mayotte, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Bajuni Islands of Somalia, northern Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, and Madagascar. Despite belonging to different language family groups, Swahili and Arabic share a lot of common words. While the core of the Swahili vocabulary comes from the native Bantu language family, it contains many words derived from Arabic, aside from the terms which are related to religion.
In this video, we compare some of the common words between Swahili (Kiswahili) and Arabic (العربية) with Abdilahi and Nagib Munir, Swahili speakers from Tanzania and Kenya, respectively, and Hassan and Mohammad, Arabic speakers from Saudi Arabia.
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Arabic is a Central Semitic language and has official/national status Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, SADR, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Swahili is part of the Sabaki branch of the Bantu languages, which also includes Ilwana (Malakote), Pokomo, Mijikenda, Comorian, , and Mwani. Much of Swahili's Bantu vocabulary has cognates in the Pokomo, Taita, and Mijikenda languages. Aside from Arabic, Swahili also contains words from other languages such as Persian, Hindustani (Urdu / Hindi), Portuguese, and Malagasy.
The 2nd Arabic sentence should be spelled as follows: "وصل محمد و حسن إلي المدرسة"
I apologize for the error in the video.
Happy to feature the Swahili language for the first time. Even though the core of the Swahili vocabulary comes from the native Bantu language family, it contains many words derived from Arabic, aside from the terms which are related to religion.
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Please correct the Arabic sentence
وصل محمد و حسن إلي المدرسة
Or you can say
وصلا محمد و حسن إلي المدرسة
@@kristinamikail6447 there are many dialects of "Arabic".. that dialect might be one of them..
@@astesiaa
I speak Arabic
Born and raised in Egypt
I know the different Arabic dialects
@@kristinamikail6447 I see.. can you write something in arabic here, BUT IN LATIN SCRIPT SO THAT I CAN READ IT.. if so then kindly Write this - *"Physics and Maths are two seperate elements of the same branch, i.e Science"*
It’s great that the arab man mentioned the Comoros island we are often forgotten as a swahili speaking country
Are you from Comoros?
@@gurgenartsimovich8893 My father is from Mayotte island actually but it is the same
@@stevenelmas8629 french
@@djekoelada9969 In terms of nationality yes, but culturally it’s exactly the same btw
Do Comoros speak kiswahili, like the whole country
The young man from the 🇰🇪 coast is brilliant! Very well informed & a good communicator adding more info to a word. 👌🏾
He needs to improve his English just a bit the saudi guy speaks English almost to fluent
He represented Kenya well. Kudos!
They are all brilliant…no one comes to the show like this without being knowledgeable 🙄…moreover, why do we always like to compare? Rather than focusing on the content?
@@mohammedabbas5470 most of the pple from the coast region cant speak fluent english because they are more exposed to swahili more than english
@@mohammedabbas5470 for learning purpose he is okay
I am swahili, but I have some Arabian descent. I am learning Arabic and because of loan words it is easier for me to memorize some words.
I would love to visit Kenya! It's an amazingly beautiful country.
You should very beautiful country.
@@ladydiana885 Certainty will before 2024, provided this whole Covid thing doesn't get in the way again
Beautiful beaches, food especially in coast. Mombasa , malindi.
@@ladydiana885 You're right indeed. Are you from Kenya?
@@markomiljkovic1137 yes .born and raise in coast place call likoni ferry. But move to USA.
The conversation changed when they were asking about where Swahili is spoken so Mr. Naqib did not get to finish so I just will add that Swahili is primarily spoken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, but also you will find many Swahili speakers in Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Comoros Islands, Madagascar, and outside of Africa in Oman, there is a significant number of people who have roots from the Swahili coast, the coastal area of the Indian Ocean in East Africa inhabited by the Swahili people, who speak and understand Swahili.
Well explained. Thanks.
Very informative, thank you
I think the confusion about Somalis speaking Swahili is the millions in North Eastern region of Kenya who speak Swahili. It's correct Somalia is not a Swahili speaking country
he said swahili is spoken in somalia i was shocked
@@cosmo_mosy no only somali people who live in kenya can speak sawhili we don't have any minority who speak sawihili language in somalia somali people have their langauge at least 2 milion people in kenya speaks somali language my be those are who can speak sawhili becouse they live in kenya i don't know why they guy included somalia as sawihli speaking nation
I am Indian Muslim with Yemeni and Persian roots. And married into Swahili family of Oman. I am familiar with Urdu/Hindi, Arabic and Swahili. My own language is a mixture of Arabic, Kannada, Malayalam and English.
So.. waongea lugha zote
I am from zanzibar with omani heritage but we don't call ourselves arabs. We are proud swahili people.
@@HAmmar0121 racial pride isn't something you should promote and encourage instead encourage loving humans and judging them by their values and ideals like Deen
@@zaharabanoo6338 Everyone should be proud of their race, nation, culture....
Allah created us in different races, families and cultures and we should be proud of that which Allah has given us and at the same time we should love and explore our differences and similarities, we must realise we are all from Adam (a.s) and no one is better than the other.
"O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you." (QUR'AN 49:13)
What is bad about me saying I have omani heritage but I consider myself to be a swahili person? I am just talking about my background. Brotherhood between muslims is the most brotherhood but Islam did not say not to be proud of your culture and race, just don't think you are better than others.
Imam Ali (a.s) said, "People are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity."
@@HAmmar0121 Tuko pamoja kaka, my grandfather was from Moroni and my grandmother was Zinjibari Alhamdulillahi
IAM FROM UGANDA 🇺🇬 AND I LOVE SPEAKING SWAHILI AND LEARN MORE TO BE FLUENT.
Arabic language has influenced wherever it went with Islam even in India our languages have enormous influence of Arabic. BTW love to both groups they are muslimsm. love from India..
And colonization ;)
@@NoOneAndNotYouArabs intermarried and intermixed with the locals not just colonized
@@simsim6419 no comment :)
@@NoOneAndNotYou don't you dare Compare Muslimen to kîll ræpe mûrdér with middle easterners.
@@simsim6419 those were Islamic Allah Khayrul-Makereen the greatest deciver conquerers. Its not the fault of middle easterners. Cult member does not associate themselves with anyone else
Much love to my Kenyan and Tanzanian brothers and Sisters. From Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Love and respect all arabs and swahili native speakers
🇸🇦🇰🇪
😍😍.
Swahili is not people it's a language!
Who are swahili people ? Just asking. 🇰🇪.
@@justinamusyoka4986 No such thing as Swahili people!
@@justinamusyoka4986
By the way even in uganda the language luganda also has some words that are the same as the ones in swahili.
@@andrelove9634 Yes Swahili is a language but people who speak Swahili here in Kenya we call them Swahili people
All the arabic words used by Saudi brothers are also used in formal urdu except the names of eating stuff.. And as a Pakistani i am also aware of all these arabic words🥰
I love this...I'm from Nairobi, Kenya and here our Swahili isn't as 'clean' as our brother's and sister's from the coastal part of Kenya. They speak 'Swahili Sanifu' while in Nairobi our Swahili has a lot of influence from our other different tribal languages (we have over 40 tribes in Kenya and each tribe with its language)
I knew Swahili has a lot of Arabic influence and this is interesting to watch.
We also share a lot of similar words with the Turkish language which I find to be a very beautiful language.
Shukran 🙏 .Swahili wa mambasa wako wanati WAKILINDINI,WATANGANA NA WACHANGMWE
@@mwanaishakhamis8069 wamvita na wajomvu
Merhaba abla
Mlifunzwa mkakataa sheng tu ndio mwajua
Not that much like you intend to potray.Most Arabic words in Swahili amply mostly to things which were not native to Swahili or other bantu languages.most Arabic words in Swahili end with I the same applys to words created for modern things like computer_tarakilishi to imply its not native Swahili word.
Congrats to my brother from Kenya . You did a great job there #swahilination
these guys were so lovely and friendly. thanks for this : )
I learned Swahili in eastern Congo and then became a Swahili instructor in the USA for a while. In 208 I planned a 3 week trip to Morocco so I pulled out my old formal dictionary (Ashton, if I recall correctly) and then found 100-200 Swahili words with Arabic roots. It was so so so much fun to freak shopkeepers out with zeitun (olives) or tum (garlic) and on and on. A bit too in Turkey in 2019.
Please visit Tanzania home of swahili
@@luganomwaisumo1938 no its not the coastal areas of east african are home of swahili....watanzania wengine hawajui kiswahili mwajisifu na hamna kitu hapo
proud of Swahili from Mombasa (Kenya)
I was waiting for a video like this one! Thank you Bahador and well done guys for this beautiful exchange 👏
Thank you for doing this. I've been reading a lot about Swahili recently. It's very interesting to see it has many Arabic words even though it is neither a Semitic or Afroasiatic language.
It's the same as Spanish, in the sense that it has some loanwords from Arabic (I think spanish has around 3000 loanwords from Arabic.). That said, the loanwords are only lexical, so they cover things like certain numbers, and physical items etc. There is no influence from Arabic in terms of its grammar, as the language is actually a variant from the Sabaki dialects spoken in Coastal Kenya/Tanzania. This is why people who speak other languages from the same language phylum (bantu languages) don't have a hard time learning the basics of kiSwahili, because they're pretty much the same. For example, the word (prefix) "ki" in other bantu languages are called "chi/isi/otji/oshi" and so forth, so the language of the Bemba people in Zambia for example, is called chiBemba. The language of the Kongo people (who are found in Congo DRC, Congo ROC, Angola etc) is called KiKingo, so the prefix there is the same as in KiSwahili.
I am Spanish. There are up to 20% spanish words that come from arabic, but most of them are no longer used, because they belong to things related to the old rural life, handicraft, specific words for outdated tools, etc.
@@oriolagullo9800 Are you from Spain?
Certain languages are influenced by others but are not family. E.g. Swahili, Spanish, Turkish, English. English is not Romance or Celtic like I always thought.
Ki- Swahili is a mixture of Bantu languages and Arabic, although afew other languages have been inter-mixed into it.
Hongera Sana mtoto wa kikenya,umetuakilisha vizuri
Keep it up from Tanzania 🇹🇿
Nice to see Swahili on here as a longtime fan of your channel and a Swahili person myself. Please continue to do more Swahili comparisons.
In Malaysia and Singapore, the Malays used ' binti ' in female names e,g " Fatimah binti Salman ". 🙂
Wow this was so enlightening,learned a bunch , Munir from 🇰🇪 represented us well
Hi there, watched a few of your clips, really enjoyed them, just wanted to say I love what you've got going here. Especially these days, it feels like more people around the world need to be reminded of the fact that we, as humans, have so much in common and our differences are negligible. Thanks and دمتون گرم.
Shkulani for your Arabic & swahili . I m from Burundi and us also we speak swahili in Bujumbura ( country Burundi) So i’ m happy to watch you 👍🙏
Swahili Lugha ya Mama. Lugha itukuzwe! This is exciting to see the similarities between Swahili and Arabic. Amazing and educative discussion, folks!
I learned my salamu alekum, shukran, marhabaetc when I first vacationed in Dubai in the late 90s, I just felt it`s respectful to greet people in their language when they are already nice enough to welcome you.
Over the years, I have kept the practice, and in any place I visit, I try to learn the basic words.
Recently in Egypt(April) a shop owner was surprised when he whispered bismillah( when I bought something from him) and I understood, he did not expect me to understand a word Arabic being im a black woman.
thanks for amking such an interesting topic, really enjoyable.
Try to visit algeria north africa we also speak arabic and berber here. And moreover it is in africa in your continent
Have learnt a lot from this video.Thanks for the upload
I knew Swahili had some Arabic words but brooo this is so cool, there are so many similarities! I started to think that even my language (Kazakh) has less Arabic loanwords and I feel jealous
Oh and I just figured out that we say shalbar for trousers, I think it's kinda similar to suruali
As a Kiswahili speaker, it's way more similar to Bantu languages there's few words like 200-300 that are similar because of trade and slave trade and Islam but its mainly a Bantu language
@@gloriasarah9653
Even the word Swahili is an arabic word which means "coasts". The numbers are all arabic except 7 numbers.
Our Kenyan brother is representing 🔥. Masha'Allah
I'm zanzibarian and so proud of Nagib, well spoken and confident.
@@HAmmar0121 Zanzibari, not Zanzibarian kaka
Lovely...picking up some similarities between Hausa and Arabic...
Nice combination it’s really interesting and they are so talkative definitely learned more about our swahili language and heritage 💗 greetings from Watamu (kenya)
I wished Sudan can make swahili a lingua france to be closer to EAC
@@salihalash4111 You already have Arabic
Hey Bahador, my man! As always, a great video! I’m a language geek myself and love all of your videos! My suggestion for the next video would be - try to find native speakers of these languages: Vietnamese (northern and southern), Northern Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese and Shanghainese Wu and try to let them focus on the words that are loanwords from Middle Chinese language, if each of them could formulate a sentence that others could potentially understand (it is quite possible, just like many European languages use Greek and Latin loanwords)
Wow,this video made me remember my days as a student in kenya,I am orginally from india,My father had a job in kenya and we shifted there.I remember learning swahili for 5 years there,my first swahili teacher,Daisy tr I still miss her.
I am from Kenya and some swahili words also have some hindi e.g bas 😃
@@miladymyla Ooh,sorry I dont know hindi,I am from south india,i
hindi is not spoken here
I did my schooling in Nairobi South International School,its been almost 10 years now
Oh really. That is quite some time, Kenya misses you I believe 😀 and hope the swahili is intact
@@miladymyla I am from India . And Yes we Use Bas in Hindi.
The young Kenyan guy is so pleasant and really intelligent too.
God bless.
ممتاز great
keep on
I love to watch your videos ❤️
Good job Keep it up 👍
"Nje ni baridi" sounds like "l'jaw ghina barid" in Levantine Arabic. In English, "Outside here [it's] cold."
I might be wrong lol 😅
You're right 🤣
We say Nje kuna baridi or Nje ni baridi both are correct.
You are correct
Nje Kuna baridi
You're right
Thanks enjoyed this one very much.
Great informative useful content.
Keep it up Nagib... Umetuwakilisha vyema wambombasa👏
Amazing! The Swahili language is part of the Bantu language family (the group of languages spoken in much of central and southern Africa) but has had considerable Arabic influences. Today, Swahili is the African language most widely recognized outside the continent. Spoken in twelve countries, Swahili is the gateway to the rich culture and dynamic economy of East Africa.
Correction it's spoken in Southern East Africa and central Africa. It originated from the Bantus at coast of Kenya and they borrowed Arabic,Portuguese and Persian words, just like English has borrowed words from other languages. If you hear the coastal Bantus speak their native language, it's Swahili.
It's not just the language alone but Also the culture.
Bantu is not a language family but a branch of the Niger-Congo language family that covers most of western, eastern and southern Africa.
Next video Arabs should compare their Arab vs our Taarabu music and dance. Even music Instruments and especially our Bantu's Chakacha. That will be explosive!!!
@@eluemina2366 They will know soon that the Bantu are the ancient Holy people, the sons of Abram, Isaka, and Akobi,! And all languages come from AKA Africa even Hebrew which comes from Bantu and Aramaic!!
This is so positive. Very informative
Hey I am Algerian north African muslim amazigh and I speak four languages arabic amazigh french and english long live muslims❤
I love this video!!! I am always telling my Arabic speaking friends how Swahili has so many borrowed words. Great stuff. 🤓👌🏿🔥🔥
There are around 33 dialects of the Swahili language which are spoken from North of the Somali coast down to the Mozambique coast. Currently, Kenya speaks the Zanzibar dialect ,Kiunguja, as the national language. We have kimvita,kiamu,kisiu,kimtangata,etc.
Swahili has borrowed words from Arabic, Portuguese, even English. Every language does that.
Somali and kiswahili are related than Arabic
@@elizabethwanyonyi609 the Arabs came to trade with us and so now you know not the other way sround
@@Latifaposche where did I say we went to trade with them? The Arabs used Africans as porters.
Punguza kimbelembele
Wow this has become one of my favorite channel! Swahili 🇹🇿🇹🇿
Nice. Really enjoyed this one .
Well done Bahador, would be interesting to watch a video highlighting the similarities between Swahili and other Bantu dialects in Southern Africa as well. Thank You
There is lots of similarity from other African languages with Swahili
That was interesting, we have similar pronunciation and vocabulary
Good show. I learned quite a bit.
Shukran rafiki tunafahari na furaha adhwim kupata elimu juu ya lugha yetu karimu kiswahili
Swahili, Turkish, Arabic, Persian and Urdu are all very different languages but they are share influences with one another through millenia of history and immigration!
Come again please guys
Very educative and interesting 🤔 👍
Amazing!! the words are similar ...always learning
Nice one
Good job guys
Thank you bahador you deserve more views ❤
I know Arabic because I was born in the UAE, and when I traveled to East Africa to Zanzibar, I realized how close the swahili to Arabic.
Number of swahili and words is similar to arabic
Due to the rule of Oman in East Africa
Hata kabla ya utawala wa waomani kiswahili kilikua na maneno ya kiarabu hii ni kutokan a na muingiliano wa kitamaduni na uhusiano mwena na maeneo ya nje na waswahili pia jografia ya mwambao wa afrikamashariki na ishtighali mbalimbali zilojumuisha watu toka asili tafauti zilichangia
@@mohamedvuaa1579 ungetumia Kiingereza ,huenda haelewi kisw
@@ramyali6347 kama haelewi na aangalie nyenzo atayotumia kutafsiri na hapo atapata kujiifunza
@@mohamedvuaa1579 nam maka haq qan hnak alktheer min altbadil altgary been afriqa walbldan alarbiah khasitn swhil afriqia alshrqiah w alarab
methil alyemen wa oman
I wrote this in arabic but instead useing arabic letter i used english I don’t know if you understand it In arabic will be like this
نعم معك حق كان هناك الكثير من التبادل التجاري بين افريقيا والبلدان العربيه خاصةً سواحل افريقيا والعرب مثل اليمن وعمان جنوب شبة الجزيره العربية
@@waleedkhaled7898 naam swadakta
Am so amazed how similar swahili and Arabic are.. A proud swahili speaker
nzuri sana asanti
مره كويس 👌👌 So amazing yaakhi imeweza
بسیار برنامه خوبیه. یکی از موارد مهم این برنامه بهادر عزیز اینه که بی توجه به تاریخ و سیاست دروغ میشه همه باهم دوست باشیم. لذت بردم مثل همیشه عالی
Good content there, diversity is interesting
It was a cool video. I loved that young Swahili guy. Great humor. And finally, the other guy laughed at the end. That was a joy.
I love this ,am from Mombasa kenya and watching from middle east
This was really interesting...I have also learnt some Arabic words💕📚
When I was doing my bachelor’s degree in Linguistics years ago, we had a fields methods class where we had to analyze an unfamiliar language. Our informant was a Lingala speaker from Uganda. Lingala is closely related to Swahili. I remember asking him the numbers and they were basically identical to the names of numbers in Arabic. So, salaasa is three and nisaa is nine. When I asked him how to say 3:00, the informant replied saa tisaa, which should mean 9:00 and when I asked him how to say 9:00, he replied saa salaasa, which should be 3:00. When I asked him how this could be, he informed us that they read the clock differently than other people do.
I think Lingala is spoken in Zaire/congo more than in Uganda,I`m not even sure Ugandans speak Lingala I love the language although I do not understand a word. Lingala has the best beats of music in Africa.
@@rikayangu3833 Should be Luganda
Excellent -and so much fun. Shukran… Shukrani!
ASSALAM Alaykum. MashaAllah. Good session
Bantu is a group of "Bantu language" speaking peoples that include Swahili speakers. The Congo is majorly Bantu-speaking and so are Tanzania, Kenya, southern Africa, central Africa, east Africa etc.
This is so amazing I have learn Arabic words in easy way🤗 🤗
Absolutely loved watching this!
I wanted to add that Darasa is class (in the context of school)
This is so good my brothers.
For the trousers,
I see the Arabs and French have a similar word
Le pantalon and Bantalon.
In East Africa we adopt an English word
Longi from Long or long pants.
But pants is the more accurate description of a clothing which worn around the waist and has orifices for both legs which in Swahili would be
Suruali (both long and short) and Sirwal in Arabic.
Amazing! I had no idea the two languages were so closely related but it actually makes a lot of sense considering geographically they aren't too far from each other. Very cool to see :)
wow! This is amazing
Great video. It'd be good to include some African Arabic dialects like Egyptian and Sudanese as well as Omani which is the source of Arabic words in Swahili.
Actually Yemeni is the source... many Yemeni tribes have the harf g like in "game".. this harf is originally came from those Yemeni tribes and Oman
Ms gurll, Omani arabic is not an African dialect 😭
@@monasirtakesitall obviously I didn't mean to say Oman was in Africa. Did you really have to point that out?
The ancient ancestors of the motherland did not call themselves Africans and they did not name the land Africa in ancient time! Just like the ancient ancestors of KMT, did not call themselves Egyptians and they did not call the land Egypt in ancient time! No such thing as African Arabic dialect! The ancient ancestors started language with symbols in BC time. Language and writing originated in the motherland in BC time . Ancient time facts!
The Arabic language originated from the motherland language!
Great conversation, I would like to join some day. I'm from Zanzibar actually.
very educational video
Wow I enjoyed this
Wow alot of similarities between Swahili and Arabic, I have always thought Arabic is a complicated language.. Well done guys.
Interesting session about a language I don't know much about
Swahili is spoken in East and South Congo , Rwanda, Burundi part of Somalia small number in Comoros but widely spoken by Kenya Tanzania and Uganda over 100million people
Wow nagib I'm so proud of my brother..... And thnx to all of you you did a great job brothers
He's your brother? He is very smart and knowledge
Mabruk my grand son .wish you all the best in your studies. Your aunt baby and family
Wow
LoL looks like the whole "Family" is here...
mashallah
Wonderful, the Swahili and Arabic matches alot, wow
Where r u from?
Am so happy that am learning here in CZcams, am doing English language and literature, so am happy to learn other languages ( linguistics) thanks ❤❤
Wow! I love this
It would be awesome to take this further and explore the Arabic and Swahili words from other different languages.
Classical Arabic - Geez - Liturgical Aramaic - Biblical Hebrew
We need that one ✌🏼
Yesss
Amongst them.. My favourite is *"Hebrew"*
It's older than Arabic and Aramaic and it was the only language to come back from the status of "Dead language" to "Living Language"..
@@astesiaa That's wrong Aramaic is older than Hebrew
and Hebrew is not preserved Sematic language it is like speaking English with a very thick Chinese accent
@@astesiaa How are you bro ?
Can you remember me , I am your old friend.
@@nabatean180 incorrect, Hebrew is older than Aramaic..
Old Aramaic was first attested in 800BCE.. whereas Hebrew was first attested in 1000BCE.. so Hebrew is older than Aramaic..
And second, Hebrew is the only language that got revived by Israeli people in the 19th century CE.. and it is now on "Duolingo", "Blabber" and "Mango languages" as one of the learning languages..
Yay you have some Saudis in the house! Was just there and loved it. ❤️
Very good explanation from the guy on right
He is accurate
Interesting 💖
i used to be amazed hearing qur'an recitation and actually grasp some words that are totaly swahili.
Good to know these similarities
The third guy is really happy, helpful and so lively! WOW!!!
ALLAH BLESS THESE SPEAKERS
Who is Allah?
@@njugunamartinari7293
The One Who created us all.
Like finding and seeing the similarity between the different languages
Cool! Next year I need an Arabic tutor.❤🎉
Maa Shaa Allah Tabaaraka Allah
And now I have a Finnish song called "Mombasa" stuck in my head. 😅 Thanks Nagib.
Mama fatuma