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Chill

🇹🇿 Tanzania Slang
Added Aug 21, 2025 · 1 definition
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Tulia/pumzika (Chill/rest)

"Chill tu kaka, kila kitu ni sawa (Just chill brother, everything is okay)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 21, 2025

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🇹🇿 Tanzania
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August 2025

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Chill 🇸🇳 Senegal

Se détendre/se relaxer (To chill/relax)

"Ñu chill ba suba (We chilled until morning)"
Chill 🌍 Gen Z/Gen Alpha

Relaxed or calm down

"We're just chilling at my place"

🇹🇿 About Tanzania Slang

Tanzanian slang is rooted in Swahili, the national language, with vibrant Bongo Flava music culture adding fresh terms to everyday speech in Dar es Salaam.

KASINARY has 1747 Tanzania slang words collected from native speakers.

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🌍 "Chill" Across Africa

This word is also used in 18 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Chill 🇸🇳 Senegal

Se détendre/se relaxer (To chill/relax)
Chill 🌍 Gen Z/Gen Alpha

Relaxed or calm down
Chill 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Relax (Relax/calm down)
Chill 🇩🇿 Algeria

Relax/hang out
Chill 🇧🇼 Botswana

Chill (Relax)
Chill 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Hadiy/cool (Calm/cool)
Chill 🇨🇫 Central African Republic

Se détendre (Chill/relax)
Chill 🇩🇯 Djibouti

Relax (English)
Chill 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Phumula / Hlala phansi (Relax / Sit down)
Chill 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ቺል/ዘና ብለህ (Relax/take it easy)
Chill 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Ho phomola / Ho ithabisa (To relax / To enjoy)
Chill 🇱🇷 Liberia

Relax/Hang out (Cool down)
Chill 🇱🇾 Libya

تشيل (Chill / relax)
Chill 🇲🇿 Mozambique

Relaxado, tranquilo (Relaxed, calm)
Chill

Relax/hang out
Chill 🇳🇪 Niger

Huta, shaƙatawa (Relax)
Chill 🇳🇬 Nigeria

To relax (To calm down)
Chill 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Kuruhuka cyangwa kutitonda (To relax or take it easy)

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