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Maasai

/ˈmɑːsaɪ/

Maasai noun: a member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.

Noun

Maasai (plural Maasai)

  1. A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.
    • Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in...2005, Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, page 24
    • According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92

Proper noun

Maasai

  1. An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.

Forms of Maasai

pluralMaasai
alternative formMasai
alternative formMassai

Questions about Maasai

What does Maasai mean?
Maasai means a member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.
What part of speech is Maasai?
Maasai can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Maasai?
Maasai is pronounced /ˈmɑːsaɪ/.
What is the plural of Maasai?
The plural of Maasai is Maasai.

Words near Maasai in the dictionary

  1. Maariv
  2. maars
  3. Maarten
  4. maas
  5. Maas's law
  6. Maasai
  7. Maasaw
  8. maasbanker
  9. maasbankers
  10. Maasdriel
  11. maaseh rav

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