Word info Synonyms

Chewa

Speech parts

1. Chewa - Noun

2. Chewa - Adjective

3. Chewa - Proper noun

Meaning

a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Mwase's guns helped to defend the Chewa from the Ngoni and wild animals. Source: Internet

Staging from rocky areas, the Ngoni impis would raid the Chewa (also called Achewa) and plunder food, oxen and women. Source: Internet

Former vice president, who is also head of the Chewa Heritage Group in Malawi has asked authorities to encourage people of different cultures to live together and not favour other tribes. Source: Internet

ChiChewa Intensive Course, (Chewa is similar to Nyanja) Lilongwe, Malawi, 1969. Source: Internet

An example from Chewa : the word "school", borrowed from English, and then transformed to fit the sound patterns of this language, is sukulu. Source: Internet

Some of those Yao he found in Nkhotakota were already Islamised and he opted to employ them rather than employing non Muslim Chewa. Source: Internet

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