mshamba

Swahili

Etymology

From m- +‎ shamba (“countryside”).

Noun

mshamba (m-wa class, plural washamba)

1. rural person
2. hillbilly, lout, hick

References

• Fritsch, Katharina (2017) “‘Trans-skin’: Analyzing the practice of skin bleaching among middle-class women in Dar es Salaam”, in Ethnicities‎^[1], volume 17, number 6, →DOI, page 761 of 749-770: “The respective term for ‘lout’ in Swahili is ‘mshamba’, which has two meanings: it refers to people living in rural areas but it also means ‘lout’ or ‘uncouth person’, illustrating the intersection of ‘race’ and class in one term.”