"harambee" meaning in English

See harambee in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: harambees [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili harambee. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sw|harambee}} Swahili harambee Head templates: {{en-noun}} harambee (plural harambees)
  1. A traditional Kenyan community self-help event or organization. Wikipedia link: harambee
    Sense id: en-harambee-en-noun-4N~TyU3r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 61 37 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 47 1

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sw",
        "3": "harambee"
      },
      "expansion": "Swahili harambee",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Swahili harambee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harambees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "harambee (plural harambees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 37 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 47 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, M. P. Cowen, Doctrines Of Development, page 296:",
          "text": "The tension between spontaneity and control, which is at the core of nearly all analyses of harambee, is usually supposed to be that between the contending forces of 'the people' and the state.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A traditional Kenyan community self-help event or organization."
      ],
      "id": "en-harambee-en-noun-4N~TyU3r",
      "links": [
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "Kenyan",
          "Kenyan"
        ],
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "self-help",
          "self-help"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "harambee"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harambee"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sw",
        "3": "harambee"
      },
      "expansion": "Swahili harambee",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Swahili harambee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "harambees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "harambee (plural harambees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Swahili",
        "English terms derived from Swahili",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, M. P. Cowen, Doctrines Of Development, page 296:",
          "text": "The tension between spontaneity and control, which is at the core of nearly all analyses of harambee, is usually supposed to be that between the contending forces of 'the people' and the state.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A traditional Kenyan community self-help event or organization."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "traditional",
          "traditional"
        ],
        [
          "Kenyan",
          "Kenyan"
        ],
        [
          "community",
          "community"
        ],
        [
          "self-help",
          "self-help"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "harambee"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "harambee"
}

Download raw JSONL data for harambee meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-02 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (db8a5a5 and fb63907). 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.