Kiswahili Language and Literature: Dictionaries

This guide is intended to provide a selection of useful print and electronic resources for the study of Kiswahili language & literature, and Swahili culture.

Online Dictionaries

Subject Headings Search

The English-Kiswahili and Kiswahili-English dictionaries listed on this guide are only a small sample of those found in the KU collections.  There are various ways to retrieve additional records for Kiswahili language dictionaries.  These search options are listed below:

  • The predominent majority of Kiswahili language dictionaries can be retrieved by using the call number search option.  The classification number for Kiswahili dictionaries is PL8703.  Choose the "simple search" option on the catalog search page, enter the base number PL8703 in the search box, and click on the "call number" option in the "search by" box. 
  • There are a few special subject dictionaries that are classified with the subject to which they pertain.  These may be retrieved by doing a subject heading search in either the simple or advanced search option.  Examples of such headings are the following:

                   Agriculture--Dictionaries--Swahili

                   Mathematics--Dictionaries--Swahili   

                   Maxims, Swahili--Dictionaries

Print Dictionaries

Subject Guide

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