Browse African Slang

Programme certification compétences (Skills certification program)

Kutfutfukisa emakhono (Developing skills)

Déficit de competências (Skills deficit)

Analyse déficit compétences (Skills gap analysis)

Realidad de brecha de habilidades (Skills gap reality)

Plateforme correspondance compétences (Skills matching platform)

Enorme desajuste de habilidades (Huge skills mismatch)

Kufundziswa emakhono (Teaching skills)

Negocio de capacitación (Skills training hustle)

Líder de taller de habilidades (Skills workshop leader)

To think or ponder (like your mind skims through ideas).

Skin (Body)

تبييض البشرة (Skin bleaching)

Debate sobre blanqueamiento de piel (Skin bleaching debate)

Beauty regimen/Face treatment (Skin protocol)

أهداف البشرة (Skin goals)

Letlalo le kganyang / Glowing skin

Kwelatjwa kwesikhumba (Skin treatment)

Cuidados com a pele (Skin care)

Cuidado com a pele (Skin care)

سكينكير أديكت - مدمن العناية بالبشرة (skincare addict)

Obsessed met vel produkte (Obsessed with skin products)

Face care items (Skin treatments)

Indlela yekunakekela sipikiri (Way of caring for skin)

تخطي المقدمة (Skip intro)

Skip / avoid.

Kugxuma intsambo (Jumping rope)

Kipande cha kuchekesha (Comedy skit)

Escovar casa (Sweep house)

Slight craziness or quirkiness.

Skomota (Dance style)

Last one/final (Last/end)

Esconderijo (Hideout)

Skop (Kick/Party)

Hlooho le dombolo / Head and dumplings

An Afrikaans phrase meaning 'kick, shoot and thunder', used to describe action-packed, rough-and-tumble situations

Skopo (Sheep head)

A dilapidated, beat-up car (widely used in Zim, from onomatopoeia of a rattling jalopy).

سكوت شوية - اسكت قليلا (shut up a bit)

Be quiet/shut up

Oku kala pejuru / to be broke (To be broke)

Sound effect for fast move.

Skrr skrr (Sound/Dance)

Ukukhihliza (Laughing sound)

Move stealth / creep (after park).

To skip school.

To run away suddenly (onomatopoeic for quick scampering off).

السماء الحد (Sky's the limit)

سكايز ذا ليمت (Sky's the limit)

Skype (Skype)