Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
aikona | it is not; no. |
basenji | a small African hunting-dog. |
bongo | a kind of antelope. |
bubinga | a species of West African tree. |
bundu | a remote uncultivated region. |
gombo gombro gumbo | a soup thickened with OKRA. [Bantu ngombo]. |
impundulu | a mythical bird with magical powers, often identified with the secretary bird. Pl. IMPUNDULUS. |
jocko | a chimpanzee > JOCKOS. [Bantu còkó, a kind of monkey]. |
kalimba | a musical instrument played with the thumbs, consisting of metal strips along a small hollow piece of wood. |
kgotla lekgotla | a Botswanan assembly. |
kikuyu | an African grass. |
kwacha | a monetary unit of Malawi. [Bantu kwacha, dawn]. |
lechwe | a kind of African antelope, aka marsh antelope. |
likuta | a monetary unit of Zaire. No —S. |
lilangeni | the standard monetary unit of Swaziland > EMALANGENI. [Bantu, f. li- sing. pref. (ema- pl. pref.) + -langeni member of royal family]. |
macaque | a kind of monkey. [Fr. f. Port. macaco f. Bantu makaku some monkeys, f. ma, numerical sign + kaku monkey]. |
matoke matooke | in Uganda, plantain used as a staple food. |
mbira | an African musical instrument played with the thumbs. |
mganga | in Tanzania and other parts of E. Africa: an indigenous African doctor, a witch-doctor. |
miombo | in E. Africa, an area of deciduous woodland. |
mopane mopani | a small South African tree with racemes of greenish flowers. |
ngwee | a Zambian monetary unit, the hundredth part of a KWACHA > NGWEES. |
nyanza | in Africa, a lake. |
suni | a small South African antelope. |
yohimbe | a W. African tree. |
yohimbine | an alkaloid obtained from the bark of the YOHIMBE tree. |
zeze | a stringed musical instrument of Africa. |