bwanayoudaoicibaDictYouDict
respectful or reverential form of address in East Africa, 1878, from Swahili.
dreadlocks (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1960, from dread + locks (see lock (n.2)). The style supposedly based on that of East African warriors. So called from the dread they presumably aroused in beholders, but Rastafarian dread (1974) also has a sense of "fear of the Lord," expressed in part as alienation from contemporary society.
Hamite (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1854, "a descendant of Biblical Ham" (see Hamitic), with -ite (1). Used in reference to Egyptian and other peoples of north and northeast Africa; but popularly, "a black African, a negro."
rhinoceros (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
c. 1300, from Latin rhinoceros, from Greek rhinokeros, literally "nose-horned," from rhinos "nose" (a word of unknown origin) + keras "horn" (see kerato-). Related: Rhinocerotic.
What is the plural of rhinoceros? ... Well, Liddell and Scott seem to authorize 'rhinocerotes,' which is pedantic, but 'rhinoceroses' is not euphonious. [Sir Charles Eliot, "The East Africa Protectorate," 1905]
TanzaniayoudaoicibaDictYouDict
east African nation, formed 1964 by union of Tanganyika (named for the lake, the name of which is of unknown origin) and Zanzibar. With country-name word-forming element -ia. Related: Tanzanian.
ZanzibaryoudaoicibaDictYouDict
island off East Africa, from Zengi, name of a local people, said to mean "black," + Arabic barr "coast, shore." Related: Zanzibari.
barazayoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"(In East Africa) a public meeting place", Kiswahili.
ngomayoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"(In East Africa) a dance; a night of dancing and music", Kiswahili, literally 'drum, dance, music'.
wananchiyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"(In East Africa) the ordinary people; the public", Kiswahili, plural of mwananchi 'inhabitant, citizen'.
mzeeyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"(In East Africa) an older person; an elder", Kiswahili, 'ancestor, parent, old person'.
askariyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"(In East Africa) a soldier or police officer", Late 19th century: from Arabic ‘askarī 'soldier'.
poshoyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"(In East Africa) daily rations consisting typically of maize or rice, given to soldiers or in payment for menial work", Kiswahili, literally 'daily rations'.
AfricanthropusyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
"Any of several extinct fossil hominids of the former genus or subgenus Africanthropus, known from Pleistocene fossil remains found in South and East Africa, and now regarded as various archaic forms of Homo sapiens", 1930s; earliest use found in Man: a monthly record of anthropological science. From scientific Latin Africanthropus, former genus name, originally coined as a subgenus of Homo from classical Latin Āfrica, the name of Africa + scientific Latin -anthropus.