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bantu
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bantu has 2 senses
- bantu(n = noun.person) Array - a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa; Array is a kind of african
- bantu(n = noun.communication) bantoid language - a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent; Array is a kind of niger-congo
has particulars: herero, hutu, chiluba, luba, sotho, batswana, bechuana, tswana, tutsi, watusi, watutsi, shona
Derived form adjective bantu1
has particulars: chichewa, chimwini, chishona, fang, gikuyu, giriama, herero, kamba, chaga, chagga, kichaga, kinyarwanda, kiswahili, kongo, luba, tshiluba, luganda, luyia, mashi, mwera, nguni, nyamwezi, pokomo, shona, sotho, umbundu, swahili, tonga
Derived form adjective bantu1
Adjective bantu has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
bantu, prop. n.
- A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person; or as in
Watusi . [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - the family of languages spoken by the Bantu people (definition 1). [PJC]
bantu, adj.
- Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages. [WordNet 1.5]
- of or pertaining to the Bantu people (definition 1). [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bantu, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. same or Bantus)
1 often offens. a a large group of Negroid peoples of central and southern Africa. b a member of any of these peoples.
2 the group of languages spoken by them.
--adj. of or relating to these peoples or languages.
--n. (pl. same or Bantus)
1 often offens. a a large group of Negroid peoples of central and southern Africa. b a member of any of these peoples.
2 the group of languages spoken by them.
--adj. of or relating to these peoples or languages.
Etymology
Bantu, = people
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