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Swahili clock as provided by the Kamusi Project. The Kamusi Project is a cooperative online dictionary which aims to produce dictionaries and other language resources for every language, and to make those resources available free to everyone. Users can register and add content. "Kamusi" is the Swahili word for dictionary.
Their names means "buffoon" and "poor, weak and silly talk" in Swahili. Their catchphrase is "Kusihi Ni Kucheka", which means "To live is to laugh". Shujaa (voiced by Christopher Jackson ) is a large adolescent mountain gorilla warrior from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest who first appeared in "Beshte and the Beast", when he was sent to the ...
Éléa Zazu, runner-up in the French reality competition series The Circle; Jessi Zazu, co-founder and former member of the rock band Those Darlins; Samuel Zazu Westerfield Jr., American diplomat; Zazu Nova, a participant in the 1969 Stonewall riots; ZaSu Pitts (1894–1963), American actress sometimes credited as Zazu Pitts
The word mzungu comes from Swahili, where zungu or zunguka is the word for spinning around on the same spot. Kizunguzungu is Swahili for dizziness. [2] The term is now used to refer to "someone with white skin" or "white skin", but can be used to refer to all foreigners more generally. [2] The word mzungu in Swahili can also mean someone who ...
Simba [1] [2] is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Disney's The Lion King franchise.First appearing as a lion cub in The Lion King (1994), the character flees his homeland when his father, King Mufasa, is killed by his treacherous uncle, Scar, with his uncle additionally deceiving him into believing he was the reason for his father's death.
jumbo – from Swahili (jambo "hello" or from Kongo nzamba "elephant") [13] kalimba; Kwanzaa – a recent coinage (Maulana Karenga 1965) for the name of an African American holiday, abstracted from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits [of the harvest]" kwashiorkor – from Ga language, coastal Ghana, meaning "swollen stomach"
The Zazous probably got their name from a line in a song – "Zah Zuh Zah" by the jazz musician Cab Calloway, [5] known for his recording of "Minnie the Moocher". Johnny Hess , a French crooner popular with the Zazous, released Je suis swing in early 1942, in which he sang the lines "Za zou, za zou, za zou, za zou ze", selling more units than ...
isango – Zulu meaning gateway; jumbo – from Swahili (jambo or jumbe or from Kongo nzamba "elephant") kalimba; Kwanzaa – recent coinage (Maulana Karenga 1965) as the name of a "specifically African-American holiday", abstracted from a Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits [of the harvest]".