"Muziki mzuri"

Translation: Nice music

[miacomet]

Could this also be "good music"?

[JLBoutin]

Yes miacomet, you are correct.

[DiegoJaviUnlam]

Etymology (muziki)

From English music.

Noun

muziki (m-mi class, plural miziki) or muziki (n class, plural muziki)

1) music

From Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muziki

[deactivated user]

This has me wondering: music is a pretty universal concept, and "muziki" looks pretty close to English "music," which ultimately comes from Ancient Greek (very, very distantly related to the Bantu languages), giving the appearance of a loan word. My question is why?

[AGreatUserName]

... because it is a loanword, and Greek is not related to the Bantu languages!?

[rjhargrav]

It's not muziki nzuri? Isn't muziki a loan word in the n/n class?

[Sarah328026]

Are you asking why Swahili isn't directly borrowing a Bantu word for music instead of borrowing it from English?