African Slang Words Starting With "H"

حوش (Courtyard)

Housing Finance (Bank)

Idea de cooperativa de vivienda (Housing cooperative idea)

ሃውሲንግ ክራይሲስ - ቅልውላው መንበሪ (Housing crisis)

Lotería de vivienda (Housing lottery)

مشاريع إسكان (Housing projects)

Fish

Hova / Free people

እንዴት/እንዴት (Endet) - how

How body? (How are you?)

Why?/Explain (How come?)

A common Liberian greeting meaning 'How are you?', literally 'How's your body (health)?'. The typical response is 'Body ...

How was your day? (How's the day?)

Casual greeting meaning 'How are you?' (literally 'How's the body?')

Slang phrase for “What time is it?” (common in Zambia to directly translate from local languages).

How is it?/What's the situation? (How's it going?)

A casual greeting meaning “How are you?” or “What’s up?”.

How you dey?/What's up? (How are you?)

How far? (How are you?)

What number? (What number?)

ስንት/ስንት (Sint) - how much

ይህ ስንት ነው/ይህ ስንት ነው (Yih sint new) - how much is this

አሁን እንዴት?/እንዴት ነህ? (How are you now?)

How side? (How's your area?)

How are you? (Health inquiry)

How's it going? (Time inquiry)

How shall we do it? (What's the plan?)

How are you doing (How's it going)

What do you mean? (Explain)

In what way? (In what way?)

Used at sentence start to emphasize or call attention (literally “he”).

Rwandanized 'how come?' often pronounced hauly. Used when something is puzzling

A friendly greeting short for 'How is it?'. Means 'Hello' or 'How are you doing?'.

Casual greeting meaning 'How's it going?'. Borrowed from South African English, extremely common among young Namibians

Isibaya (kraal)

Sadness

Hram (Haram/forbidden - Arabic)

“Shame on you,” or “that’s cruel of you.”. Usage: You ate the last cookie while I was gone? Hram 3lik, I was saving that...

Criminal/outlaw

Burn

Silk

هريسة (Spicy paste)

Harvest

Horse

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ኋላ/ኋላ (Huala) - back/behind

Natural de Huambo (From Huambo)

Chinese brand

ዋዌ/ዋዌ (Huawei)

Centre névralgique (Hub)