bwana
/ˈbwɑːnə
/noun
(In East Africa) a boss or master (often used as a title or form of address): he can’t hear you, bwana...
- The only difference now is that instead of white bwanas there are dark-skinned leeches from our own villages.
- It has often been suggested that Livingstone was only successful when he was leading Africans who saw him as their bwana.
- "Yes, Bwana," came the voice from the hallway, followed by a perspiring black man in a loose white shirt, loose white pants, and a pair of cracked plastic shoes - which made him one of the richer men of his village ten miles up the Busati.
Origin
Kiswahili.
Rhymes
- compensation
- compensational
- compensation pendulum
- compensation water
- compensative
- compensator
- compensatory
- compensatory time
- comper
- compete
- competence
- competency
- competent
- competently
- competition
- competitive
- competitive advantage
- competitive exclusion
- competitively
- competitiveness
- competitor
- compilation
- compile
- compiler
- compile time