watusi

2 definitions found

watusi - 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]

watusi - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Watusi
      n 1: a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and
           Burundi [syn: Tutsi, Watutsi, Watusi]