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Masai

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Ma·sai  (mä-s, mäs)
n. pl. Masai or Ma·sais
1. A member of a chiefly pastoral people of Kenya and parts of Tanzania.
2. also Maa·sai The Nilotic language of this people.
Ma·sai adj.
Masai [ˈmɑːsaɪ mɑːˈsaɪ ˈmæsaɪ]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -sais, -sai a member of a Nilotic people, formerly noted as warriors, living chiefly in Kenya and Tanzania
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Nilotic group of the Nilo-Saharan family
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Noun1.Masai - a Nilotic language
Nilotic, Nilotic language - a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group
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They were as well-bred in their way as the /habituees/ of a fashionable drawing-room, and in this respect they differ from Zulu women and their cousins the Masai who inhabit the district beyond Zanzibar.
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