Definition of passion in English

Passion is a strong feeling or emotion.

Passion in Swahili

Passion in Swahili is translated as: shauku, hamu, tamaa, uchu, hanjamu, muhu, etc.

Examples of passion in Swahili in sentences

• Shauku hujenga mateso. (Passion creates suffering.)
• Kushiriki shauku yako ni kuishi nayo kikamilifu. (To share one’s passion is to live it fully.)
• Una tamaa kubwa ya chakula. (You really have a passion for food.)
• Ni hamu gani ambayo muziki hawezi kuamsha na kutuliza? (What passion cannot music raise and quell?)
• Shauku imezimika kwake. (The passion has burned itself out in him.)
• Chris hawezi kudhibiti tamaa yake kwa msichana mpya mzuri mjini. (Chris cannot control his passion for the lovely new girl in town.)
• Mwandishi anaonyesha shauku yake kwa mapenzi yake. (The author expresses his passion for his love.)
• Shauku ni moja ya tabia zake. (Passion is one of her characteristics.)
• Tamaa yake kwangu haipungi. (His passion for me doesn’t cool.)
• Alinipiga kwa shauku. (He struck me in a passion.)
• Ana shauku ya uvuvi. (He has a passion for fishing.)
• Anaweza kuweka shauku chini ya akili. (He is able to subordinate passion to reason.)
• Ana shauku ya keki. (She has a passion for cake.)
• Alimimina shauku yake kwa watoto wake kadri awezavyo. (She poured her passion into her kids as much as she could.)
• Nina shauku ya mawe. (I have a passion for stones.)
• Alipokuwa chuo kikuu, Zari alijisalimisha kwa hamu ya ngono. (When she was at university, Zari abandoned herself to sexual passion.)
• Ingawa shauku inaweza kuwa imeweka mkazo, lazima ivunje vifungo vyetu vya upendo. (Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.)
• Hakuna shauku yoyote ambayo huondoa nguvu zote za akili za kutenda na kufikiri kama hofu. (No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.)
• Upole wake usiozuilika unanikasirisha! Msukumo wake uko wapi? Shauku yake iko wapi? (His unrelenting mildness infuriates me! Where is his drive? Where is his passion?)
• Baada ya muda shauku na mapenzi hupotea. (After a while passion and infatuation ooze away.)
• Muziki ni shauku yako. (Music is your passion.)
• Kusoma ni shauku yangu. (Reading is my passion.)
• Kila mtu ana shauku yake mwenyewe. (To each his own passion.)
• Nasukumwa na shauku yangu. (I’m driven by my passion.)
• Alifanya kazi zake za kila siku bila shauku yoyote. (She performed her daily duties without any passion.)
• Kazi yangu ni shauku yangu. (My profession is my passion.)
• Kazi yangu ni shauku yangu. (My work is my passion.)
• Tunapona tu kutoka kwa shauku tunapoifurahia hadi mwisho. (We only get healed from a passion when we savor it till the end.)
• Tom alijaribu kuficha shauku yake kwa Mary. (Tom tried to conceal his passion for Mary.)
• Vyombo vya habari vilisema kuwa ilikuwa ni uhalifu wa uchu. (It said in the newspapers that it was a crime of passion.)
• Kuteleza ni shauku yangu. (Skiing is my passion.)
• Ana shauku ya kazi yake. (She has a passion for her work.)
• Kupika ni shauku yangu ya siri. (Cooking is my secret passion.)
• Ilikuwa ni uhalifu wa uchu. (It was a crime of passion.)