Word of the Day — 13 Oct 2026
Gondar's Fasil Ghebbi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
uspinza ini? What are you drinking?
Ulibonile igedlela lami elisha?
Did you see my new car?
She is learning to speak Swahili before her trip to Tanzania.
Pronounced (ggggaaah); is a Khoikhoi word for “plenty” or “enough”. Used in Xhosa as a term for “That’s enough”often in anger and sometimes in disgust hence mistaken for “ew”.
In Khoikhoi: There is a river in the Eastern Cape called Birha. Bi is milk, and rha is plenty. Hence “a place of milk”. Another use is in the Xhosa chief Gambushe’s nickname: Rharhabe meaning “Minister of Plenty”.
In Xhosa it varies:
In a Dismissal Manner
Someone: I’m going to out race you.
Me: Rha! That would be the day.
To stop a child who is hitting another child a parent could say “Stop it. Rha! That’s enough”
In a Disgusting Manner
When a child see poop usually they used to say “Rha! Poo”
When people hear, smells, or see a disgusting thing they can say “Rha!”
In an Elated Manner
A person recounting an exciting moment of thriumph can say “Rha! I out did myself”
Feeling pretty? “Rha! I’m beautiful”
I prefer Ekurhuleni over City of Johannesburg.
Ngizo catcha if this guy continues to be this good to me.
Conakry, Guinea's capital, is located on the Atlantic coast on the Tombo Island.
Can also be spelt as Kwirikwiri or kwarakwara.
Stop calling foreign people kwerekwere!
Dumsor spoil my whole evening.
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