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shanta: Ottoman Turkish → Arabic → Swahili · Lexodus

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shanta

Borrowed from Arabic شنطة (šanṭa), from Ottoman Turkish چانطه (çanta, “leather bag, small suitcase”).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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Wiktionary: shanta (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 1460Ottoman Turkish

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c. 1460
c. 1480
c. 1800

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.