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Borrowed from Arabic عَدِيم (ʕadīm).[1]

adimu (invariable)

1. rare, scarce
   adimu kama maziwa ya kuku ― as rare as a chicken's milk

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -adimisha
  • Stative: -adimika
• Nominal derivations:
  • uadimu (“rarity”)

1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 202 Nr. 1814

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