Browse African Slang

إس تير - أعلى مرتبة (highest rank)

صغير (Small / little)

Let's go / move.

Tsy miraharaha / Tsy maninona (Don't care / Whatever)

S'entraîner (Train/work out)

S'il vous plaît (Please - French)

At the top / ahead.

(Zulu/Xhosa, 'my love') A romantic way to say 'my beloved.' Often shortened to just s'thandwa (love). Used similarly to ...

Trio / group of three.

Cash register/tuck shop desk.

S'amuser beaucoup (To have a blast)

Devenir amoureux (To become enamored)

Heat

سطح (Roof / terrace)

صحاب (Friends / buddies)

SADC / SADC

Société d'électricité (Electricity company)

SDF (Sans domicile fixe - homeless)

ODD poursuivi (SDG pursued)

Senior High School (High school)

SIAO (International Crafts Fair)

ሲም ካርድ/ሲም ካርድ (SIM card) - SIM card

Kushintja i-SIM (Changing SIM)

SITHO (Tourism and Hospitality Fair)

South C / South B

شيك ماي هيد - Shaking my head

Hazz ras (Shaking head)

Message texte (Text message)

Texto

إس إن آر تي ليڭاسي - إرث الإذاعة الوطنية (national broadcast legacy)

Société du coton (Cotton company)

Société sucrière

Société des eaux (Water company)

Shirikisho la wanafunzi (Student union)

Alerte familiale (Family SOS)

Not slang but its derivatives are colloquial: 'SPLA time' meaning things happening slowly or late

Student Representative Council (Student government)

SRC politics - Student government drama

Student government week (Student activities)

Société des eaux

Société d'électricité

Impulso de educación STEM (STEM education push)

S'il te plaît; please

Chuo cha Kilimo (Sokoine University of Agriculture)

Chuo cha Zanzibar (State University of Zanzibar)

S'il vous plaît; please (formal)

Completely/entirely.

Literally 'that/this.' In casual slang, you might hear sa used for emphasis at the end of a sentence

Sa (To die - Dioula)

Vendre quelque chose (Sell something)