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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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