indaba
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of indaba
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (South-Africa)A tribal conference held by Nguni leaders.
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noun
- (South-Africa)A tribal conference held by Nguni leaders.
- (South-Africa, broadly)Any conference, discussion, or meeting.
- (South-Africa)Chiefly in one's own or someone's indaba: a concern, matter, or problem.
- (broadly)An international conference of Scout leaders.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Zulu índaba (“affair, issue, matter; piece of news; story”), from ín- (class 9 noun prefix) + -daɓa (stem meaning ‘affair, matter’).
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