English Explanatory Dictionary

Samburu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.
name
  1. Their Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language.

Word forms

Samburu Samburus

Etymology

From an old Maasai word, saamburr, for the leather bag the Samburu use.

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