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Definition of Masai
1. Noun. A Nilotic language.
Definition of Masai
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Maasai) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Masai
Literary usage of Masai
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"masai woman of Naivasha Photograph Young masai women. (One of them is about to
marry, so she is having iron wire coiled round her legs) . ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"The masai proper are nomadic, but a section of the tribe subsists by ... Sir C.
Eliot and others hold that the masai are a cross between Hamitic and Nilotic ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"Dr. Fischer's Journey in the masai Country. AT the meeting of the Hamburg
Geographical Society, held on December 6th, 1883, Dr. GA Fischer appeared before ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"Sir H. Johnston's suggestion that the masai are an early ... and at the same time
accounts for the peculiar structure of the masai language, ..."
5. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1914)
"We agree to vacate at such time as the Governor may direct the Northern masai
Reserve which we have hitherto inhabited and occupied and to remove by such ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"The "VVa-swahili going into the masai country leave their wives and female slaves
here. The next halting-place, Njoro, four hours north-west, ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Still he would strongly advise that any future explorer should join himself to
a Swahili caravan in order to cross the masai country. ..."
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