"Mhandisi"

Translation: The engineer

[kjbritt91]

Is this from the Arabic word for engineer, 'muhandis'?
(مهندس)

[Bassant_Gamal]

yes

[Rachel49630]

Generally, if a word ends in "i", it comes from Arabic! If it ends in "a", it usually has Bantu roots.

[AGreatUserName]

That only holds true for verbs. Many Bantu nouns, adjectives and pronouns end in "i".

[mas986]

Shouldn't be An Engineer?

[Babu-G]

You are right but for this answer I found no way to report the error.

[Svea_DE]

I answered "an engineer" and it is now accepted (31-Dec-2018)

[deactivated user]

Interesting. Is it semitic in origin? Like in Hebrew, מהנדס?

[smauG566]

In fact, in this case both Hebrew and Swahili borrow from Arabic.

[HannesMeyl]

A engineer? Thats just wrong...

[Gita-ji]

Yes. The word 'engineer' starts with a vowel, so it should be 'An engineer'.

[deactivated user]

I sense a meme here