"Bantu" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbæntu/ Forms: Bantus [plural], Bantu [plural]
Etymology: From Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek. Etymology templates: {{der|en|bnt-pro|*bàntʊ̀||people|g=p}} Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|Bantu}} Bantu (countable and uncountable, plural Bantus or Bantu)
  1. (countable) A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language. Wikidata QID: Q173371 Tags: countable Derived forms: Semi-Bantu Related terms: Bantu languages, Bantu ethnic groups Coordinate_terms: Asian [South-Africa], black [South-Africa], Black [South-Africa], Coloured [South-Africa], white [South-Africa], White [South-Africa] Translations (member of the ethnic group): Bantu [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-Bantu-en-noun-en:Q173371 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 39 37 Disambiguation of 'member of the ethnic group': 80 7 12
  2. (South Africa, dated, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black South African. Tags: South-Africa, countable, dated, ethnic, offensive, slur, uncountable Categories (topical): Language families
    Sense id: en-Bantu-en-noun-e0TjihrE Disambiguation of Language families: 19 49 33 Categories (other): English ethnic slurs, South African English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 39 37 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 57 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 18 43 28 5 4 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 20 41 30 3 5 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Afrikaans translations: 11 70 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 10 74 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 14 64 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 10 72 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 12 68 20 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 65 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 15 62 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 14 64 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 10 74 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 14 62 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 11 72 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 15 62 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 17 58 25
  3. (uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Wikidata QID: Q33146 Tags: uncountable Translations (language family): Bantoe (Afrikaans), Sintoe (Afrikaans), 班图语支 (Bāntú) (Chinese Mandarin), bantu (Danish), Bantoe [neuter] (Dutch), bantu (Finnish), bantú (Galician), Bantu [neuter] (German), Bantu-Sprachfamilie [feminine] (German), バントゥー (Japanese), bantu [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bantu [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), bantu [neuter] (Polish), банту (bantu) [masculine] (Russian), bantú (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Bantu-en-noun-en:Q33146 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 39 37 Disambiguation of 'language family': 17 14 69

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.