Word of the Day [11 Jun 2026]

Kota

A quarter loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with combinations of atchar, polony (Bologna), Russian sausages, slap chips, cheese, eggs, chilli sauce and more. A street food / kasi variant of the more suburban bunny chow.

I'm definitely getting myself a kota the next time I visit Gomora.

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Ninganya

A Xhosa term that directly translates to "y'all would shit".

No one:

Black Coffee: Ninganya

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Nyhori

Inyhori is a Xhosa slang term that’s used to refer to someone with one eye.

They stabbed him in the eye, now yinyhori.

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Nyuku

Word referring to money.

Where is my nyuku?

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eMonti

eMonti is the Xhosa name for East London, a city on the southeastern coast of South Africa.

Masambe siye eMonti.
Let's go to East London.

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PSL

PSL is the acronym for Premier Soccer League, which is the South African top flight soccer/football league.

We can't let Mamelodi Sundowns win the PSL title again 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Hobosexual

A person who enters a relationship for the sole purpose of having a place to stay or avoid being homeless.

I just found out the girl I was actually a hobosexual.

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Comoros

A small volcanic island nation off East Africa with Arab-French-African culture and fragrant ylang-ylang exports.

The Comoros is one of the world's leading producers of ylang-ylang essential oil.

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Ikhankatha

A Xhosa name for a traditional nurse that takes care of an initiate (umkhwetha) during initiation (circumcision).

Ikhankatha plays a major role during initiation.

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Big Xhosa

Also known as SOS - Is a South African rapper who the current king of South African rap. He released his diss track called Ninyile that was dissing the whole SA Hip Hop industry and all these cats have been awfully quiet ever since.

Big Xhosa dissed the whole industry except Big Zulu.

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uTaka

Xhosa term for sleeping over at a boyfriend/girlfriend's place.

Umntu wakhe uthe makatake iweekend yonke.

Her partner asked her to sleep over for the whole weekend.

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