"Ganda" meaning in English

See Ganda in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: From Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|lg|Omuganda||Ganda}} Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Ganda
  1. The Luganda language. Categories (topical): Ethnonyms
    Sense id: en-Ganda-en-name-DLQrgGwF Disambiguation of Ethnonyms: 46 54 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Luganda translations, Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Luganda translations: 63 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations: 54 46

Noun

Forms: Gandas [plural], Ganda [plural]
Etymology: From Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|lg|Omuganda||Ganda}} Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|Ganda}} Ganda (plural Gandas or Ganda)
  1. A member of the ethnic group of Uganda who speak the Luganda language. Categories (topical): Ethnonyms Categories (place): Uganda Synonyms: Baganda [plural], Waganda [plural] Related terms: Buganda Translations (member of ethnic group): Omuganda (Luganda), Umuganda (Rwanda-Rundi), Umugande (Rwanda-Rundi)
    Sense id: en-Ganda-en-noun-RQbmPqsn Disambiguation of Ethnonyms: 46 54 Disambiguation of Uganda: 0 100 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations: 54 46

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lg",
        "3": "Omuganda",
        "4": "",
        "5": "Ganda"
      },
      "expansion": "Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Ganda",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 37",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Luganda translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ethnonyms",
          "orig": "en:Ethnonyms",
          "parents": [
            "Ethnicity",
            "Names",
            "People",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The Luganda language."
      ],
      "id": "en-Ganda-en-name-DLQrgGwF",
      "links": [
        [
          "Luganda",
          "Luganda"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Luganda"
  ],
  "word": "Ganda"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lg",
        "3": "Omuganda",
        "4": "",
        "5": "Ganda"
      },
      "expansion": "Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gandas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ganda",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "Ganda"
      },
      "expansion": "Ganda (plural Gandas or Ganda)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "46 54",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ethnonyms",
          "orig": "en:Ethnonyms",
          "parents": [
            "Ethnicity",
            "Names",
            "People",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Uganda",
          "orig": "en:Uganda",
          "parents": [
            "Africa",
            "Earth",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 394:",
          "text": "Now Kirabo understood why the Ganda considered the selling of family land an abomination. But then again, after Amin’s regime, which had left the Ganda desperately impoverished, things were changing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of the ethnic group of Uganda who speak the Luganda language."
      ],
      "id": "en-Ganda-en-noun-RQbmPqsn",
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic group",
          "ethnic group"
        ],
        [
          "Uganda",
          "Uganda"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Buganda"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "Baganda"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "Waganda"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "lg",
          "lang": "Luganda",
          "sense": "member of ethnic group",
          "word": "Omuganda"
        },
        {
          "code": "rw",
          "lang": "Rwanda-Rundi",
          "sense": "member of ethnic group",
          "word": "Umuganda"
        },
        {
          "code": "rw",
          "lang": "Rwanda-Rundi",
          "sense": "member of ethnic group",
          "word": "Umugande"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Ganda people"
  ],
  "word": "Ganda"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English indeclinable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Luganda",
    "English terms derived from Luganda",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Luganda translations",
    "Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations",
    "en:Ethnonyms",
    "en:Uganda"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lg",
        "3": "Omuganda",
        "4": "",
        "5": "Ganda"
      },
      "expansion": "Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Ganda",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The Luganda language."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Luganda",
          "Luganda"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Luganda"
  ],
  "word": "Ganda"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English indeclinable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Luganda",
    "English terms derived from Luganda",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Luganda translations",
    "Terms with Rwanda-Rundi translations",
    "en:Ethnonyms",
    "en:Uganda"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lg",
        "3": "Omuganda",
        "4": "",
        "5": "Ganda"
      },
      "expansion": "Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Luganda Omuganda (“Ganda”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gandas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ganda",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "Ganda"
      },
      "expansion": "Ganda (plural Gandas or Ganda)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Buganda"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 394:",
          "text": "Now Kirabo understood why the Ganda considered the selling of family land an abomination. But then again, after Amin’s regime, which had left the Ganda desperately impoverished, things were changing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A member of the ethnic group of Uganda who speak the Luganda language."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic group",
          "ethnic group"
        ],
        [
          "Uganda",
          "Uganda"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "Baganda"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "Waganda"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "lg",
      "lang": "Luganda",
      "sense": "member of ethnic group",
      "word": "Omuganda"
    },
    {
      "code": "rw",
      "lang": "Rwanda-Rundi",
      "sense": "member of ethnic group",
      "word": "Umuganda"
    },
    {
      "code": "rw",
      "lang": "Rwanda-Rundi",
      "sense": "member of ethnic group",
      "word": "Umugande"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Ganda people"
  ],
  "word": "Ganda"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Ganda meaning in English (3.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). 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.