Swahili
mshongo
m-SHON-go
How to say it
Swahilimshongom-SHON-gosoon
Englishpassionate personsoon
Frenchpersonne passionnéesoon
Meaning
a person who is passionate or highly sexually desirous.
Good to know
passionate person (usually in a sexual sense)
Examples
- Watu walimsimanga kwa kuwa mshongo.People mocked him for being overly passionate.
- Je, kwa nini unamwita mshongo?Why do you call him lustful?
- Mshongo yule hakujizuia.That passionate person did not restrain himself.
- Hakuwa mshongo, alikuwa na nidhamu.He was not lustful, he was disciplined.
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