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Festival

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

Tamasha/sherehe kubwa (Festival/big celebration)

"Festival ya utamaduni linafanyika kila mwaka (Culture festival happens every year)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 21, 2025
DEFINITION 2

Festival definition 2

Tamasha la utamaduni (Culture show)

"Festival ya Zanzibar linafanyika kila mwaka (Zanzibar festival happens every year)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 21, 2025

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🇹🇿 Tanzania
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2 community definitions
Added
August 2025

↻ Similar Words

Festival 🇩🇿 Algeria

Music event

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Festival 🇸🇨 Seychelles

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🇹🇿 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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🌍 "Festival" Across Africa

This word is also used in 15 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Festival 🇩🇿 Algeria

Music event
Festival 🇸🇨 Seychelles

Festival (Festival)
Festival 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Cultural celebration (Festival)
Festival 🇦🇴 Angola

Evento cultural grande (Large cultural event)
Festival 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Festival (Festival)
Festival 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Festival (Cultural event)
Festival 🇨🇫 Central African Republic

Festival culturel (Cultural festival)
Festival 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau

Festival (Festival)
Festival 🇹🇬 Togo

Grande fête (Festival)
Festival 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

በዓል/በዓል (Beal) - festival
Festival 🇹🇳 Tunisia

Festival (Festival)
Festival 🇰🇪 Kenya

Tamasha (Festival)
Festival 🇱🇷 Liberia

Big event/Celebration (Festival)
Festival 🇲🇱 Mali

Seli ba, dɔn ni fɔli waati (Big celebration, dance and music time)
Festival 🇸🇹 São Tomé and Príncipe

Festa grandi (Festa grande) (Festival)

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