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Zaka

🇧🇼 Botswana Slang
Added Aug 12, 2025 · 1 definition
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Zaka (Money)

"Adima zaka (Lend me money)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 12, 2025

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🇧🇼 Botswana
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1 community definition
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August 2025

↻ Similar Words

Zaka 🇿🇦 South Africa

Money / big funds.

"We chase zaka, not clout."
Zaka 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Zaka (Market - Mooré)

"Ti kẽe zaka! (We're going to market!)"

🇧🇼 About Botswana Slang

Botswana slang merges Setswana with English, with Gaborone youth driving a modern lexicon influenced by South African township culture.

KASINARY has 1824 Botswana slang words collected from native speakers.

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🌍 "Zaka" Across Africa

This word is also used in 4 other countries, sometimes with a different meaning.

Zaka 🇿🇦 South Africa

Money / big funds.
Zaka 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Zaka (Market - Mooré)
Zaka 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Madi / Chelete e ngata (Money / Lots of money)
Zaka

Aumône obligatoire (Obligatory alms)

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