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Kakwa

Kakwa noun: a Nilotic ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, southwestern South Sudan, and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Noun

Kakwa pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A Nilotic ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, southwestern South Sudan, and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Adjective

Kakwa (comparative more Kakwa, superlative most Kakwa)

  1. Of, from or pertaining to the Kakwa.
    • He suspected, because of the way he twisted words and the scarification, that Sasa was either Kakwa, Amin’s tribe, or Nubian.2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 259

Forms of Kakwa

comparativemore Kakwa
superlativemost Kakwa

Questions about Kakwa

What does Kakwa mean?
Kakwa means a Nilotic ethnic group of northwestern Uganda, southwestern South Sudan, and the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What part of speech is Kakwa?
Kakwa can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near Kakwa in the dictionary

  1. kakuros
  2. Kakusandha
  3. Kakuske
  4. Kakutani
  5. Kakutanis
  6. Kakwa
  7. Kakyel
  8. Kakyen
  9. Kakyenlakpam
  10. kal v'chomer
  11. Kal.

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