bantu : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bantu	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bantu
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bantu adj of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu population of Sierra Leone" n a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent Synonym(s): Bantu, Bantoid language
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bantu \Ban"tu\, n. A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person. -- {Ban"tu}, a.