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umuzungu

umuzungu is the alternative form of mzungu.

Meaning of mzungu

Noun

mzungu (plural mzungus or wazungu)

  1. (Africa, East) A white person.
    • I have given my daughter to an mzungu, and he says he will make her like the wives of the white men.1888, Joseph Thomson, E. Harris-Smith, Ulu: an African romance: Volume 1

Forms of umuzungu

pluralabazungu
pluralbazungu

Questions about umuzungu

What is umuzungu the alternative form of?
Umuzungu is the alternative form of mzungu.

Words near umuzungu in the dictionary

  1. Umuahia South
  2. umuganda
  3. Umunneochi
  4. Umurano
  5. umus
  6. umuzungu
  7. Umvoti
  8. Umvuma
  9. UMWA
  10. umwelt
  11. umwelten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umuzungu (page history and authors); mzungu (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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