Topic: Swahili

"Tomato"

Translation:Nyanya

May 10, 2017

4 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/syntyche1981

    I'd love to know how a tomato became nyanya.

    May 10, 2017
    https://www.duolingo.com/Dying_Star

      Fact. In Kenya we call our grandmothers nyanya. :) In Tanz. they call them bibi. Which is funny because bibi in Kenya means wife. Lol!

      May 10, 2017
      https://www.duolingo.com/juryrigging

        So you call your grandmothers tomatoes, and they call their grandmothers "wife". I'm not sure which country's grandmothers get the better deal. ;)

        May 11, 2017
        https://www.duolingo.com/Jeremy529594
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        Or, maybe, do you mean how a nyanya became a tomato?

        September 5, 2017
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