Browse African Slang

Hoodie / winter drip.

COVID anxiety/Corona worry (Pandemic pressure)

Dançar marrabenta (To dance marrabenta)

Música e dança cultural (Traditional music and dance)

Pane (Pan)

Panel beater (Body work)

Panela de barro (Clay pot)

Panga (Power/strength - Mooré)

Large knife; also act violently.

Canal des Pangalanes / Pangalanes canal

Comida exótica tradicional (Traditional exotic food)

Buscar água (Fetch water)

Perceber/Entender (Understand/Get it)

Inkinobho yesaba (Fear button)

Basket

Chariot virtuel (Shopping cart)

Crazy / surprising situation.

Breakdown

Out of gas

عطل كامل (Total breakdown)

Énergie solaire

Panneaux solaires accessibles (Affordable solar panels)

Full traditional outfit

Pano tradicional (Traditional cloth)

Traditional cloth

Pansement (Bandage)

Panthère (Panther)

Équipe nationale de foot (National football team)

ሱሪ/ሱሪ (Suri) - pants

Pantsula (Township guy/dancer)

Field rat

Elderly person.

Spread news

Panzi/mtu mrembo (Butterfly/beautiful person)

Maize porridge, a staple food. Not slang but culturally significant and often searched

Pap (Maize meal)

Liphalishi nenyama (Porridge and meat)

Papa le borowose / Porridge and sausage

Pap en vleis (Pap and meat)

Literally "porridge and meat" in Afrikaans. Pap (maize meal porridge) with vleis (meat) is a traditional combo, essentia...

Father; older man

Papa (Pap/Porridge)

Papa God (God)

Neighborhood fashionista

Papa travaille (Father works)

Voiture du père (Father's car)

Papadi (Sport)

Grand-père (Grandfather)

Photographes de célébrités (Celebrity photographers)

Papayer (Papaya tree)