English Explanatory Dictionary

Bafana Bafana

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The men's national association football (soccer) representative team of South Africa.

Word forms

Bafana Bafana

Etymology

From bafana (boys), plural of the Zulu umfana. Apparently first used by journalists in Soweto in the early 1990s.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on B Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary