Bantu

Definitions: Bantu

Bantu

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone".

Noun

1. A member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa.

2. A family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Bantu

Crosswords: Bantu

German (bantu), Hungarian (bantu), Indonesian (assist, auxiliary, help), Malay (abet, aid, assist, help), Manx (Bantu), Turkish (bantu).

For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees ("Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner"; performing artist: Warren Zevon)

Nammina Bantu (1959)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bantu Heritage (reference)

• Bantu Historical Linguistics : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (reference)

• Bantu Languages (Routledge Language Family Series, 4) (reference)

• Bantu, Boer and Briton: The Making of the South African Native Problem (reference)

• Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life: Reflective Essays on a Bantu Religion (Studies of Religion in Africa, 18.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Gabon

Almost all Gabonese are of Bantu origin. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

The majority of the Equatoguinean people are of Bantu origin. (references)

Rwanda

The Hutus, who comprise the majority of the population (85%), are farmers of Bantu origin. (references)

Indigenous People

Congo

There were no reports on whether the traditional practice of Pygmies working as indentured servants to a Bantu person continued during the year. (references)

Cameroon

Local Pygmies along the proposed path of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline continue to complain that they have not been compensated fairly for their land like their Bantu neighbors. (references)

Botswana

The Basarwa (also known as San), who now inhabit chiefly the Kalihari Desert, are the earliest known inhabitants of the country and were the only inhabitants until Bantu groups arrived during the 16th century. (references)

Minorities

Somalia

Minority groups and low-caste clans include the Bantu (the largest minority group), the Benadiri, Rer Hamar, Brawanese, Swahili, Tumal, Yibir, Yaxar, Madhiban, Hawrarsame, and Faqayaqub. (references)

Travel

Eq. Guinea

The major hotels in Malabo include the Hotel Bahia, the Hotel Ureca, the Hotel Impala and the Hotel Bantu. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "Bantu": Bantu-speaking.

Afrikaan

Bantoe, Bantoe-. (various references)

Chinese 

班图语. (various references)

Dutch

Bantoe-. (various references)

Esperanto

bantuo, bantua. (various references)

French

bantou. (various references)

German

bantu-, bantu. (various references)

Hungarian

bantunéger, bantu. (various references)

Italian

bantù. (various references)

Korean 

반투. (various references)

Manx

Bantu. (various references)

Pig Latin

antubay.(various references)

Spanish

bantú. (various references)

Swedish

bantuneger. (various references)

Turkish

bantularla ilgili, bantu dil grubu, bantu. (various references)

Misspellings

"Bantu" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baindu, Banctec, Bangum, Bannau, Banotti, Bantung, Banu, Banuta, Batum, Batut, Bentti, Binta, Bintou, Bintulu. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tabun.

-1 letter: abut, aunt, bunt, tabu, tuba, tuna.

-2 letters: ant, ban, bat, bun, but, nab, nub, nut, tab, tan, tau, tub, tun, uta.

-3 letters: ab, an, at, ba, na, nu, ta, un, ut.

+1 letter: butane, numbat, tabuns, turban.

+2 letters: abluent, antibug, banquet, bawsunt, buoyant, butanes, butanol, cutbank, gunboat, numbats, sunbath, tabuing, tunable, tunably, turbans, unbated.

+3 letters: abducent, abluents, ablution, abundant, abutilon, abutment, abutting, ambulant, arbutean, autobahn, bankrupt, banquets, bouffant, braunite, breadnut, bunkmate, butanols, butanone, cutbanks, debutant, gunboats, huntable, incubate, intubate, jubilant, rambutan, runabout, subagent, subtaxon, sunbathe, sunbaths, tribunal, tuneable, tuneably, turbaned, turbinal, turbofan, turnable, umbonate, unabated, unbathed, unbeaten, unstable, unstably, urbanest, urbanist, urbanite, urbanity.

+4 letters: abducting, abduction, ablutions, abruption, abutilons, abutments, antiurban, autobahns, bankrupts, banqueted, banqueter, banquette, botulinal, bouffants, braunites, breadnuts, bunkmates, buoyantly, butadiene, butanones, countable, countably, debutante, debutants, eastbound, exuberant, heartburn, incubated, incubates, incubator, intubated, intubates, isobutane, lubricant, mountable, multiband, multibank, obscurant, outbaking, rambutans, runabouts, subagents, subaltern, subjacent, sublating, sublation, substance, subtaxons, subtenant, sunbathed, sunbather, sunbathes, tabouring, tenurable, thumbnail, tribunals, tribunate, turbanned, turbinals, turbinate, turbofans, turnabout, turntable, unactable, uneatable, unstabler, untamable, untenable, urbanists, urbanites.

+5 letters: abducentes, abductions, abjuration, abruptions, abruptness, absolution, abundantly, ambulating, ambulation, ambushment, antebellum, antibusing, autobahnen, bankruptcy, bankrupted, banqueters, banqueting, banquettes, beautician, binucleate, bladdernut, blanquette, brontosaur, buccinator, butadienes, buttonball, butylating, butylation, debutantes, dubitation, earthbound, extubating, exurbanite, gangbuster, heartburns, incubating, incubation, incubative, incubators, incubatory, infibulate, interurban, intubating, intubation, intuitable, isobutanes, jubilantly, jubilating, jubilation, knockabout, lobulation, lubricants, mountebank, obnubilate, obscurants, obturating, obturation, outbalance, outbargain, outbarking, outbawling, outbeaming, outblazing, outbraving, outfabling, paintbrush, returnable, roundabout, roundtable, subalterns, subcabinet, subcentral, sublations, submediant, substances, substation, subtenancy, subtenants, subtrahend, sunbathers, sunbathing, tabulating, tabulation, tambourine, tambouring, thumbnails, tribunates, tubulating, tunability, turbinated, turbinates, turnabouts, turntables, unabatedly, unbaptized, unbeatable, unbeatably, unstablest, unsuitable, unsuitably, untestable, untillable, urbanistic, urbanities.

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