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English
Etymology
From Swahili -shenzi. loan word from Arabic 'Zanj' which means both black African and monkey.
Noun
shenzi (plural shenzis)
- (dated, Africa) A barbarian (variously used to refer to foreigners, Europeans, or pagans)
1919, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints, page 263:We instructed our men to shoot first and inquire afterward, if a shenzi so much as showed himself in the clearing.
Anagrams
Swahili
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps from the same source as Arabic زَنْج (zanj, “Zanj”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
-shenzi (declinable)
- uncivilized, barbarian
Declension
Inflected forms of -shenzi
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