Bongo

bongo bongó bongô bỡ ngỡ boŋo English + language + people (South Sudan) + people (Gabon) Proper noun A Central Sudanic language spoken by the Bongo people in sparsely populated areas of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan. en Bungu Dor en gewog of district:Suf/Chhukha c/Bhutan. Noun p An ethnic group living at the eastern side of the Albert Nile River in northwestern Uganda and in neighbouring South Sudan in small, scattered settlements south and east of Wau. An agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa. en Babongo Bazimba See also bot en Bongo Bongo Land en Bonggo en Languages Cebuano Pronunciation ceb oŋo 2 ceb Bo ngo Proper noun + ceb Swahili Etymology sw :der bongo<t:brain> + 1 Referring to the difficult conditions during the economic crisis of the 1980s which required one's own wits (having "big brains") to survive working in Dar es Salaam, later extended to all of Tanzania.2011 Suriano Maria Hip-Hop and Bongo Flavour Music in Contemporary Tanzania: Youths’ Experiences, Agency, Aspirations and Contradictions Africa Development 36 3-4 113-126 https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/view/74118 115 In respect to its origins, the word bongo (the augmentative form of ubongo, ‘brain’) means ‘Tanzania’ in Swahili slang, with an allusion to the ‘big brain’ necessary in order to survive in the country. It should be specified that the first meaning of the word bongo was ‘Dar es Salaam’ (during the economic crisis in the 1980s, one needed wits to survive there). Pronunciation bongo sw Sw-ke-bongo.flac Kenya Proper noun sw proper noun sw dated sw @nickname for:Dar es Salaam largest city c/Tanzania. sw @nickname for:Tanzania country r/East Africa. Derived terms sw mbongo Tanzanian References sw Nicknames for cities