Word of the Day [21 Jan 2026]

amatile-tile

Xhosa plural for stratagems. It is actually just amatile. Singular is itile. The ti is pronounced like English tea and le as in French. From the Sanskrit kutila which appear in Xhosa as ukutila.

My car broke down on the way, I had to make amatile-tile to get here.

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Gondar

Former imperial capital with medieval castles and churches.

Gondar's Fasil Ghebbi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Auti

A man/boy/guy, also synonymous with "gent", "mjita".
Plural: Ma auti

I was out with ma auti

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shlama

meaning shit that comes out of your anus (ndunu)

have uyishlama wena.(you are shit)
siyaphuma ishlama lapho.(is the shit coming out there)

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Nkqayi

Inkqayi is a Xhosa term for chiskop. Like when you cut all of your hair (bald).
A lot of people misspell it as nqayi.

Soze ndiphinde ndichebe inkqayi.

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Equatorial Guinea

A small Central African country with significant oil wealth and Spanish colonial heritage.

Equatorial Guinea is Africa's only Spanish-speaking sovereign nation.

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Kasi

A South African slang term for township.

I come form ekasi.

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Haibo

An expression of surprise or shock (basically means wow), mostly used by Xhosa speaking people. It can also be spelt as Hayibo.

Haibo, is this really happening?

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Afrikaner

Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th and 18th centuries

Contrary to popular belief, Afrikaners are also Africans.

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Alostro

The feeling of wanting to explain something and not finding the right term to do that,

Eish "Alostro" mfowethu (unexplainable)

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Chakla

To destroy, to leave in disorder or to mess up

The how y’all now chakla this room, when I bop my eyes, that how it muh be clean.

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