Word.ws English Dictionary

Bafana Bafana

Bafana Bafana proper noun: the men's national association football (soccer) representative team of South Africa.

Proper noun

Bafana Bafana

  1. The men's national association football (soccer) representative team of South Africa.

Origin of Bafana Bafana

From bafana (boys), plural of the Zulu umfana. Apparently first used by journalists in Soweto in the early 1990s.

Questions about Bafana Bafana

What does Bafana Bafana mean?
Bafana Bafana means the men's national association football (soccer) representative team of South Africa.
What part of speech is Bafana Bafana?
Bafana Bafana is a proper noun.

Words near Bafana Bafana in the dictionary

  1. Baeza-Yates–Gonnet algorithm
  2. Baezas
  3. Baezes
  4. BAF
  5. bafa
  6. Bafana Bafana
  7. Bafanji
  8. bafaro
  9. BAFC
  10. BAFCs
  11. bafertisite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bafana Bafana (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Bafana Bafana.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bafana_bafana. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.