ABSP - Swahili

Kiswahili

baraza	in E. Africa, a public meeting-place.
benga	a form of Kenyan popular music featuring guitars.
boma	in Africa, a thorn enclosure.
bwana	a master, sir.
dengue	a tropical fever. [Swahili dinga].
harambee	a Swahili rallying cry, 'let's organize together'.
jambo	an E. African salutation.
kanga khanga	a piece of cotton cloth wound round the body as a dress.
kanzu	a long white garment worn by men in E. Africa.
kikoi	a piece of cloth wound round the waist.
kitenge	a brightly coloured cotton cloth.
kwanza	the standard monetary unit of Angola.
matatu	a type of taxi used in Kenya.
miombo	an area of deciduous woodland occurring in parts of E Africa > MIOMBOS.
mvule	a large African tree of the mulberry family.
mwalimu	a teacher.
mzee	an old person.
mzungu	in E. Africa, a white person.
panga	an African knife, like a machete.
pombe	an African alcoholic drink.
safari	a hunter's or traveller's party or caravan, esp. in E. Africa; (verb) to go on safari.
serkali	(in Africa) the Government; white rulers.
shamba	in E. Africa, any plot, farm or smallholding used for growing crops.
simi	in Africa, a short two-edged sword or large knife.
sitatunga situtunga	a species of African antelope.
suffari	a SAFARI.
uhuru	freedom.
ujamaa	in Tanzania, a form of village community resembling the Israeli kibbutz.

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