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Moola Currency used by the now-defunct South African mobile-data service Mxit; money in general. morgan A traditional unit of measurement of land area of Dutch origin, that is approximately equal to two acres. muti Any sort of medicine but especially something unfamiliar (Zulu for traditional medicine). [32] Mzansi.
Original Afrikaans translation for "bunk-bed" is "stapelbed". Riet ("Reed") refers to the bunk bed frame's flimsy appearance while "kooi" is the slang term for a bed (specifically a single-bed), derived from the Capetonian dialect. "Kooi" is still in use in the Southern regions. rol – ("roll") A fight or brawl. Rolling – to fight.
Moola Narayana Swamy (born 1950), Indian film producer and entrepreneur The Fabulous Moolah (1923–2007), ring name of professional wrestler Lillian Ellison Young Money , also known as Young Moolah by label rapper Lil Wayne
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
Beaulah Bar in De Waterkant, Cape Town, takes its name from the Gayle word for "beautiful". [2]Gayle, or Gail, is an English- and Afrikaans-based gay argot or slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speaking homosexual men in urban communities of South Africa, and is similar in some respects to Polari in the United Kingdom, from which some lexical items have been borrowed.
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export business. The family was forced to relocate to Bloemhof, a nearby town, following the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Tsonga (/ ˈ (t) s ɒ ŋ ɡ ə / ⓘ (T)SONG-gə) or, natively, Xitsonga, as an endonym, is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of South Africa.It is mutually intelligible with Tswa and Ronga and the name "Tsonga" is often used as a cover term for all three, also sometimes referred to as Tswa-Ronga.