English Explanatory Dictionary

sambaza

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The Lake Tanganyika sardine, Limnothrissa miodon.
verb
  1. To send credit using the Sambaza system; (generally) to send or share something.

Word forms

sambaza sambazas sambazaing sambazaed

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Bantu [Term?] Swahili -sambaa Swahili -sambazabor. English sambaza Borrowed from Swahili sambaza (“to disperse, scatter”), popularized by Sambaza, a credit sharing service developed by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom in 2005.

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