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umlungus

umlungus is the plural of umlungu.

Meaning of umlungu

Noun

umlungu (plural umlungus or abelungu)

  1. (South Africa, derogatory, often) A white person.
    • No, the average Bantu always had a dilemma; live with the wild tribes and never know when some witchdoctor's tagati would strike him down; or live with the umlungus and respect his authority (and his sjambok).1992, Colin Bender, Makapan odyssey, page 166
    Synonyms:
    white person

Questions about umlungus

What is umlungus the plural of?
Umlungus is the plural of umlungu.

Words near umlungus in the dictionary

  1. umlauts
  2. umlessness
  3. Umling
  4. UMLS
  5. umlungu
  6. umlungus
  7. umm
  8. Umm al Qaywayn
  9. Umm al Quwain
  10. Umm al-Quwain
  11. Umm Qasr

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umlungus (page history and authors); umlungu (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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