kujichagulia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. self-determination (in the context of African-American culture) uncountable
    — On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.

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Etymology tree
Common Bantu *-càagʊda
Proto-Sabaki *-caagula
Swahili chagua
Swahili -chagulia
Swahili kujichaguliabor.
English kujichagulia
Borrowed from Swahili kujichagulia (“self-determination”).
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