umlungu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Derogatory

"No, the average Bantu always had a dilemma; live with the wild tribes and never know when some witchdoctor's tagati would strike him down; or live with the umlungus and respect his authority (and his sjambok)."
"The old man snorted and laughed, “Is your teacher an umlungu?”"

Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀dʊ̀ngʊ̀ Zulu uḿlungubor. English umlungu Borrowed from Zulu uḿlungu.

umlungus (plural) abelungu (plural)

white person

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