Browse African Slang

Ir à reunião (Go to meeting)

Ir à escola (Go to school)

Helodranon'ny Frantsay / Baie

Tovovavy / Sipavavy (Girlfriend / Girl)

Bail (Bail)

Release payment/Freedom fee (Bail payment)

Release/Free (Post bail)

Masharti ya dhamana (Bail terms)

Baileys (Irish cream)

Vizinhança / área residencial (Neighborhood / residential area)

WhatsApp neighborhood

Informal settlement

Forgotten neighborhood

Neighborhood family

Sexe, rapport (Sex, intercourse)

Embrasser (Kiss)

Ajalaat (Bicycle - Swahili)

Baiskeli/chombo cha miguu (Bicycle/leg vehicle)

بيتد - Baited

Centro da cidade de Maputo (Maputo city center)

Centro histórico (Historic center)

Licença por doença (Sick leave)

Mostrar submissão (Show submission)

De pequena estatura (Short)

Three-wheeled taxi (from Hindi/Arabic)

Take a bajaj (three-wheeler taxi)

Three-wheeler

Bajaj/pikipiki za abiria (Passenger motorbike)

Three-wheeled taxi

National budget

باكا - Fool (Japanese)

Elmina fishing festival (Fishing celebration)

Go to the grocery

Baki (Jacket)

መጋገር/መጋገር (Megager) - baking

Add strength

"Oh my people" – exclamation of surprise/emotion.

A pickup truck. Afrikaans word used by everyone to mean a small truck with an open back.

A pickup truck. In Namibia a bakkie is any small open-back truck, widely used by farmers and city folks alike

Perfect BBQ weather (Perfect grilling weather)

باكو - رزمة نقود (Bundle - money bundle)

Cent dollars (Hundred dollars) - slang

Look here/check this out

Fête en plein air

Bala (So/then - Mooré)

Balafone (instrumento) (Balafone instrument)

Forget about it / never mind.

Ho bala ka boomo / To bala ka boomo

Bala yetẽ yaab-daare (Patience defeats trouble)

Literally 'disaster,' slang-wise means something extreme (good or bad). 'Mdem ni balaa' (the girl is unbelievably hot) o...