Asemahle
Xhosa for "they are beautiful", built on the widespread Nguni root -hle, "good, beautiful".
Meaning and origin
Asemahle reads almost as a short sentence rather than a single word: it wraps the common Xhosa root -hle, "good, beautiful", in prefixes that turn it into a statement about the child.
How to pronounce Asemahle
| Xhosa (South Africa) | ah-seh-MAH-hleh /aːsɛˈmaːɬɛ/ |
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