kweis

Juba Arabic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkweis/, [ˈkwe.ɪs]

Adjective

kweis (plural kweisiin)

  1. Alternative spelling of kweys
    • 2019, Ita gi ainu haya fii mustagbal keff?‎, Jehovah's Witnesses:
      Nas bi istakal sokol al kweis.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Adverb

kweis

  1. Alternative spelling of kweys

Nubi

Etymology

From Sudanese Arabic كويس (kuwayyis). Cognate with Juba Arabic kweys.

Adjective

kweis

  1. good

Adverb

kweis

  1. well, properly
    adaku nas kura to de kweis.
    his feet were brushed properly.

References
  • Ineke Wellens (2005) The Nubi Language of Uganda: an Arabic Creole in Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN, page 178
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