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laduma

laduma interjection: goal! (cheer when a goal is scored in football).

Interjection

  1. (South Africa) goal! (cheer when a goal is scored in football)
    • Soccer advertisements celebrated the new nation — "When all the colours and textures of soccer come together — Laduma! Let's celebrate good times! Come on!"2010, Anne Kelk Mager, Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa, page 59

Origin of laduma

From Zulu laduma, literally "it thunders".

Questions about laduma

What does laduma mean?
Laduma means goal! (cheer when a goal is scored in football).
What part of speech is laduma?
Laduma is an interjection.

Words near laduma in the dictionary

  1. Laducas
  2. Ladue
  3. Ladues
  4. Laduke
  5. Ladukes
  6. laduma
  7. Ladwig
  8. Ladwigs
  9. lady
  10. lady abbess
  11. lady abbesses

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