English Explanatory Dictionary

Zanj

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A certain portion of the coast of East Africa.
noun
  1. One of the Bantu-speaking inhabitants of this part of East Africa.

Word forms

Zanj Zanjs

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زَنْج (zanj, “The East African coastlands”), from Persian زنگ (zang, “East Africa”) or its Middle Persian etymon; see the Persian entry for more.

Related words

Zanzibar
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