ujamaa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.
Uncountable
noun
A village built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded by communal farmland.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83."
- "She told him the gift was in keeping with the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics, one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa."
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili ujamaa (“brotherhood, extended family”), from jamaa (“family”), from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa, “group (of people)”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: جَمَاعَة