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Daktari

🇹🇿 Tanzania Slang
Added Aug 21, 2025 · 2 definitions
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Daktari definition 1

Mtu wa tiba (Medical person)

"Daktari amesema nimepona (Doctor said I'm healed)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 21, 2025
DEFINITION 2

Daktari definition 2

Daktari/mtu wa tiba (Doctor/medical person)

"Daktari amesema nile vyakula vyenye vitamini (Doctor said I should eat foods with vitamins)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 21, 2025

Word Details

Country
🇹🇿 Tanzania
Definitions
2 community definitions
Added
August 2025

↻ Similar Words

Daktari 🇰🇪 Kenya

Daktari (Doctor)

"Daktari amesema nini? (What did the doctor say?)"
Daktari 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Daktur (Doctor - Swahili)

"Ona daktari (See a doctor)"

🇹🇿 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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🌍 "Daktari" Across Africa

This word is also used in 2 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Daktari 🇰🇪 Kenya

Daktari (Doctor)
Daktari 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Daktur (Doctor - Swahili)

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