Swahili
mafasiki
mah-fah-SEE-kee
How to say it
Swahilimafasikimah-fah-SEE-keesoon
Englishimmoral personssoon
Frenchpersonnes immoralessoon
Meaning
People who behave immorally and lead dissolute, sinful lives, considered as a group.
Good to know
plural of fasiki (li-/ma- class, Arabic loan); human referent, takes wa- agreement; formal/religious register, mildly disapproving.
Examples
- Mafasiki hao waliishi maisha ya anasa.Those immoral people lived lives of excess.
- Mhubiri alionya juu ya njia za mafasiki.The preacher warned about the ways of immoral people.
- Je, mafasiki watabadilika siku moja?Will immoral people ever change?
- Hawakutaka kuchanganyika na mafasiki.They did not want to mix with immoral people.
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