kanzu
English
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editkanzu (plural kanzus)
- A white or cream-coloured robe worn by men in the African Great Lakes region.
- 2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 395:
- As he announced Tommy [...] he draped the barkcloth knot on top of Tommy’s kanzu.
Livvi
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editFrom Proto-Finnic *kansa, from Proto-Germanic *hansō. Cognates include Karelian kanža, Finnish kansa.
Noun
editkanzu
Derived terms
edit- kanzalaine (“citizen”)
- kanzalližus (“citizenship”)
Further reading
edit- kanzu in VepKar Open Corpus of Veps and Karelian Languages
Swahili
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editkanzu (n class, plural kanzu)
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