English words from Bantu

(languages spoken by over 400 closely related groups in central, east-central, and southern Africa, belonging to the South Central subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family and including Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Zulu, Xhosa, etc.)

The words in this unit have been compiled from a list of the "Bantu" languages. The parts of speeches and definitions were added from a variety of sources.

—The basic entries come from the "Word Source" section in the
Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary by E.L. Thorndike and Clarence L. Barnhart;
Scott, Foresman and Company; Glenview, Illinois; 1973; page 88.
banana
banjo
basenji
buckaroo
chimpanzee
gnu
goober
gumbo
impala
jazz
jukebox
kudu
Kwanza
marimba
okra

See other English words from foreign languages at this
Other Languages Index.