Browse African Slang

Dancing game (Movement play)

Major northern town (Northern hub)

Movimento do mar para surf (Sea movement for surfing)

Elefante (Elephant)

Hide and seek (Children's game)

Local de reunião dos homens (Men's meeting place)

Rattle (Shaker instrument)

Capital do Cunene (Cunene capital)

Elephant (Large mammal)

Traditional basket (Container)

Traditional hut (Round house)

Leave; get out

Leather apron (Hide clothing)

Moja (One)

One Cameroon (United country)

One Cameroon forever (United nation always)

United Gambia

وان ليبيا (One Libya)

United country (Unity)

Someone who gets drunk very fast (like an engine with one piston, not powerful).

One thousand cedis

Chumba kimoja na sebule (One bedroom)

Originally refers to a scam where unsuspecting passengers enter a taxi or bus only to be robbed. In slang, anything desc...

Provocative dance move.

One corner dance - Viral dance craze

Future time/Eventually (One day)

مصير واحد (One destiny)

One for the road (Final drink)

قلب واحد (One heart)

Single success (Brief fame)

Used to describe something odd or not quite right.

Single chance (One life)

One love (Unity/peace)

One love (Unity)

United affection

Need one passenger (One seat left)

One nation (Single country)

وان نايت ستاند - One night stand

شعب واحد (One people)

وان شوت - ضربة واحدة (one hit)

Ekipa iray / One team

Immediately/At once (Instantly)

Viva l'Algérie chant

One voice (United opinion)

ዋን ቮይስ - ሓደ ድምጺ (One voice)

Direct route/Straight (Non-stop)

One direction only

A Swahili proverb (attributed to Tanzania/Kenya) meaning if you truly love someone, you love everything about them. Supe...

An Egyptian proverb highlighting that a marriage based purely on love (and not on material stability) may face hardships...

One at a time; individually