suahil

Updated: May 22, 2025

Their name is derived from the Arabic word suahil, coast; but it has also been said, by some who have found them scarcely so guileless as might have been expected, to be really a corruption of the words sawa hili, that is, "those who cheat all alike."

J. H. (John Henry) Patterson - The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures