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Turn up

🇲🇿 Mozambique Slang
Added Apr 06, 2026 · 1 definition
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Turn up definition 1

Animar, agitar (Get hyped, party hard)

"Hora de turn up (Time to turn up)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Apr 06, 2026

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🇲🇿 Mozambique
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1 community definition
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April 2026

↻ Similar Words

Turn up 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Turn up (To party hard)

"We go turn up tonight (We'll party hard tonight)"
Turn up 🇸🇨 Seychelles

Monte lanbyans (Turn up)

"Letan pou turn up! (Time to turn up!)"

🇲🇿 About Mozambique Slang

Mozambican slang blends Portuguese with Emakhuwa, Ndau, and other Bantu languages, shaped by Maputo's urban youth and Afro-house culture.

KASINARY has 1213 Mozambique slang words collected from native speakers.

Browse all Mozambique slang (1213 words)

🌍 "Turn up" Across Africa

This word is also used in 19 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Turn up 🇨🇲 Cameroon

Turn up (To party hard)
Turn up 🇸🇨 Seychelles

Monte lanbyans (Turn up)
Turn up 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

Party hard (Turn up/party)
Turn up 🇿🇦 South Africa

Ukujabulela kakhulu (Party hard)
Turn up 🇸🇸 South Sudan

Ihtifel bi qowa (Party hard)
Turn up 🇸🇿 Eswatini

Ukujabula kakhulu / Ukudla ubhedu (Party hard / Have maximum fun)
Turn up 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ተርን አፕ/ደስ ይበለን (Turn up/let's party)
Turn up 🇬🇭 Ghana

Party hard/Have maximum fun (Party hard)
Turn up 🇰🇪 Kenya

Sherehe kubwa (Big party)
Turn up 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Ho ithabisa / Pati e kholo (To enjoy / Big party)
Turn up 🇱🇷 Liberia

Party hard/Have fun (Celebrate)
Turn up 🇱🇾 Libya

ترن اب (Turn up / party hard)
Turn up 🇳🇦 Namibia

Oku popya / party hard (To party hard)
Turn up 🇬🇲 Gambia

Turn up bi neex na (The party was lit)
Turn up 🇳🇬 Nigeria

To party hard (To have maximum fun)
Turn up 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Kwishimira cyane mu birori (To party hard)
Turn up 🇺🇬 Uganda

Turn up (Party)
Turn up 🇿🇲 Zambia

Party/excitement
turn up 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

Turn up (Party hard)

🇲🇿 More Mozambique Slang

Shamwari Amigo em ndau (Friend in Ndau) Maxixe Cidade de Maxixe (Maxixe city) Shade Indiretas (Indirect insults) Puto Jovem, miúdo (Young person, kid) Nakhutukela Obrigado em makhuwa (Thank you in Makhuwa) Tar doente Estar doente ou indisposto (To be sick or unwell)
View all 1213 Mozambique slang words

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