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Bantu

/ˈbæntu/

Bantu noun: a member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.

Noun

Bantu (countable and uncountable, plural Bantus or Bantu)

  1. (countable) A member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.
  2. (uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bantu meaning in Tamil

Bantu in Tamil

தெற்கு நடு ஆப்பிரிக்க மொழிக்குழு

Forms of Bantu

pluralBantus
pluralBantu

Origin of Bantu

Borrowed from Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.

Words formed from Bantu

Phrases with Bantu

Questions about Bantu

What does Bantu mean?
Bantu means a member of any of the African ethnic groups that speak a Bantu language.
What is Bantu in Tamil?
Bantu in Tamil is தெற்கு நடு ஆப்பிரிக்க மொழிக்குழு. See Bantu meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Bantu?
Bantu is a noun.
How do you pronounce Bantu?
Bantu is pronounced /ˈbæntu/.
What is the plural of Bantu?
The plural of Bantu is Bantus.

Words near Bantu in the dictionary

  1. Banton
  2. Bantons
  3. Bantry
  4. Bantry Bay
  5. bants
  6. Bantu
  7. Bantu knot
  8. Bantu knots
  9. Bantufication
  10. Bantug
  11. Bantuist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bantu (page history and authors); Bantu (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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