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Borrowed from Omani Arabic سهم (sehem), from Arabic سَهْم (sahm, “part, portion”).[1]

sehemu class IX (plural **sehemu class X)

1. part, portion, fraction, act
2. place, part of the world
   Afrika ni sehemu maalum.
   Africa is a special place.

Used to form fractions where the numerator is 1, in which case sehemu is followed by the ordinal form of the number. See Appendix:Swahili numbers for more.

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 154 Nr. 1384