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Definition of Sengi
1. a monetary unit of Zaire [n SENGI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sengi
Literary usage of Sengi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Déliberations by Royal Society of Canada (1898)
"... fix " sen " cf the following : cf Sta-tu = light, etc., Sumai, etc., etc
sengi-sengi = twi-light, Sam. ..."
2. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1885)
"Sam., senga-senga, to be yellowish from disease; senga-vale, shine dimly, as the
sun through a mist, be pale from fear ; sengi-sengi, twilight; se-se, ..."
3. Kuaiwa Hen: Twenty-five Exercises in the Yedo Colloquial, for the Use of by Ernest Mason Satow (1873)
"After sengi no uye understand danji wo ... and-so (kara) after (no uye) further (nawo)
inquiry (sengi)... Soko is for sono tokoro, ie kui-chigai no tokoro, ..."
4. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: A Revised Orthography by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"... um-sengi.ji./. I'erson of a pleasing though not distinctly handsome appearance ;
any commoner who is a favourite at court, though occupying no high ..."
5. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: A Revised Orthography by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"... um-sengi,M. /. Person of a pleasing though not distinctly handsome appearance;
any commoner who is a favourite at court, though occupying no high ..."
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