Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

maasai

/ˈmɑːsaɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables: maa-sai
IPA: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.

name

An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.

Example Sentences

"Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist."
"According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide."

Inflected Forms

Masai (alternative) Massai (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce maasai?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɑːsaɪ/.
What does maasai mean?: A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.

How to pronounce maasai

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