bantu

3 definitions found

bantu - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bantu \Ban"tu\, prop. 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; or as in Watusi.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. the family of languages spoken by the Bantu people
        (definition 1).
        [PJC]

  Bantu \Ban"tu\ adj.
     1. Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu
        (definition 2); as, Bantu languages.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. of or pertaining to the Bantu people (definition 1). The
        Bantu population of Sierra Leone
        [WordNet 1.5]

bantu - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Bantu
      adj 1: 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 1: a member of any of a large number of linguistically related
           peoples of Central and South Africa
      2: a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of
         the African continent [syn: Bantu, Bantoid language]