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Crush

🇹🇿 Tanzania Slang
Added Aug 21, 2025 · 1 definition
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Crush definition 1

Mtu wa kupendelewa (Person to be loved)

"Nina crush kwa msichana wa jirani (I have crush on neighbor's girl)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 21, 2025

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🇹🇿 Tanzania
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August 2025

↻ Similar Words

Crush 🇩🇿 Algeria

Romantic interest

"Got a crush on her"
Crush 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Like someone (Crush)

"Ah get crush on am. (I have a crush on her.)"

🇹🇿 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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🌍 "Crush" Across Africa

This word is also used in 21 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Crush 🇩🇿 Algeria

Romantic interest
Crush 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Like someone (Crush)
Crush 🇿🇦 South Africa

Umuntu omthandayo (Person you like)
Crush 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Wahid inta tahubbu (Someone you like)
Crush 🇦🇴 Angola

Paixão platónica (Platonic crush)
Crush 🇧🇼 Botswana

Crush (Attraction)
Crush 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Crush (Crush)
Crush 🇧🇮 Burundi

Crush (Crush)
Crush 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Crush (Crush)
Crush 🇹🇬 Togo

Coup de cœur (Crush)
Crush 🇪🇬 Egypt

كراش - Crush
Crush 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ክራሽ/የምወደው (Crush)
Crush 🇬🇦 Gabon

Béguin, attirance (Crush, attraction)
Crush 🇹🇳 Tunisia

Crush (Crush)
Crush 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Motho eo u mo ratang / Secret love (Person you like / Secret love)
Crush 🇱🇷 Liberia

Secret love/Admiration (Crush)
Crush 🇲🇬 Madagascar

Fitiavanao voalohany / Olona tianao (First love / Person you like)
Crush 🇲🇿 Mozambique

Paixão, pessoa que se gosta (Crush, person you like)
Crush 🇺🇬 Uganda

Crush (Crush)
Crush 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Umuntu ukunda ariko atarakuzi (Someone you like secretly)
Crush 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe

Pesoa ki gosta (Pessoa que gosta) (Person you like)

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