Nyabingi
/nɪəˈbɪŋ(ɡ)i/ /ˌnʌɪəˈbɪŋ(ɡ)i/noun
1A religious cult among the Kiga people of Rwanda and Uganda, based on belief in a spirit or spirits called Nyabingi, capable of entering a human being and mediated by the priests and priestesses of the cult; a political organization inspired by this cult.
- The cult originated in the late 18th or early 19th cent. Its priests were the main indigenous political leaders among the Kiga in western Uganda in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and organized armies that were involved in anti-European resistance..
2A Rastafarian sect inspired by the East African Nyabingi cult and advocating resistance to white domination; a member or supporter of this sect.
3An act of ritual worship originating in the Nyabingi cult and involving rhythmic percussion and chanting, especially as later developed within Rastafarianism; this ritual music.
adjective
1Of, relating to, or designating the Nyabingi religious cult and political movement in East Africa. Especially in Nyabingi cult.
2Of, relating to, or designating the Rastafarian Nyabingi sect.
3Of, relating to, or designating the ritual of Nyabingi or the music associated with it.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in The Times. From Kiga Nyabingi, lit. ‘she who brings bounty’, (name of a) spirit or category of spirits that can enter human beings.
- repetition compulsion
- repetition device
- repetitionist
- repetition phenomenon
- repetition running
- repetition sermon
- repetition training
- repetition work
- repetitious
- repetitiously
- repetitiousness
- repetitive
- forget-me-not
- forgettable
- forgetter
- forgivable
- forgivably
- forgive
- forgiveness
- forgiver
- forgiving
- forgivingly
- forgo
- for God's sake!
- forgone