bwana
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
Definition of bwana
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(slang)Big boss, important person.
“It is Jim C.’s custom always to say “Up Simba” in a fake-deep bwana voice as he hefts the camera to his right shoulder […]”
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab- Proto-Semitic *ʔabw- Arabic أَب (ʔab)bor. Swahili bwanabor. English bwana Borrowed from Swahili bwana (“master”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”). Doublet of abbot.
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