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WhatsApp

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

Programu ya mazungumzo (Chat application)

"WhatsApp yangu imejaa ujumbe (My WhatsApp is full of messages)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 21, 2025

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🇹🇿 Tanzania
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August 2025

↻ Similar Words

WhatsApp 🇩🇿 Algeria

Messaging app

"Text me on WhatsApp"
WhatsApp 🇺🇬 Uganda

WhatsApp (WhatsApp)

"WhatsApp message (WhatsApp message)"

🇹🇿 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.

Browse all Tanzania slang (1747 words)

🌍 "WhatsApp" Across Africa

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

WhatsApp 🇩🇿 Algeria

Messaging app
WhatsApp 🇺🇬 Uganda

WhatsApp (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone

WhatsApp message (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇿🇦 South Africa

Ho romela molaetsa (To send a message)
WhatsApp 🇸🇩 Sudan

WhatsApp (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇧🇯 Benin

Application de messagerie (Messaging app)
WhatsApp 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

WhatsApp (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇧🇮 Burundi

WhatsApp (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇨🇫 Central African Republic

WhatsApp (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇹🇬 Togo

Application message (Messaging app)
WhatsApp 🇸🇿 Eswatini

I-WhatsApp / Ukuthumela imilayezo (WhatsApp / Sending messages)
WhatsApp 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ዋትስአፕ/ዋትስአፕ (WhatsApp) - messaging app
WhatsApp 🇹🇳 Tunisia

WhatsApp (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇰🇪 Kenya

WhatsApp
WhatsApp 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Ho romela molaetsa / Ho buisana (To send message / To chat)
WhatsApp 🇱🇷 Liberia

Messaging app (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇱🇾 Libya

واتساب (WhatsApp)
WhatsApp 🇲🇬 Madagascar

WhatsApp / WA
WhatsApp 🇷🇼 Rwanda

Kohereza ubutumwa kuri WhatsApp (To send WhatsApp messages)
WhatsApp 🇿🇲 Zambia

WhatsApp (messaging)
WhatsApp 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe

WhatsApp (WhatsApp messaging)

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