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rungu

rungu noun: a wooden throwing club or baton used in certain East African tribal cultures.

Noun (1)

rungu (plural rungus)

  1. A wooden throwing club or baton used in certain East African tribal cultures.

Noun (2) capitalized: Rungu

Rungu (plural Rungu)

  1. A member of an ethnic people of Borneo.
  2. A member of an ethnic people of Tanzania.

Proper noun capitalized: Rungu

Rungu

  1. The language of the Rungu from Borneo.
  2. The language of the Rungu from Tanzania.

Forms of rungu

pluralrungus
pluralRungu

Origin of rungu

Borrowed from Swahili rungu.

Questions about rungu

What does rungu mean?
Rungu means a wooden throwing club or baton used in certain East African tribal cultures.
What part of speech is rungu?
Rungu can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of rungu?
The plural of rungu is rungus.

Words near rungu in the dictionary

  1. runghead
  2. rungheads
  3. rungless
  4. Runglish
  5. rungs
  6. rungu
  7. rungus
  8. Rungwa
  9. runholder
  10. runholders
  11. runholding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rungu (page history and authors); Rungu (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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