Maasai

See also: maasai

English

Alternative forms

• Masai, Massai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːsaɪ/

Noun

Maasai (plural Maasai)

1. A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.
   • 2005, Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, page 24:

     Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist.

   • 2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:

     According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.

Translations

group of people

• Finnish: maasait pl
• German: Massai (de) m
• Hungarian: maszai, maszáj
• Maasai: ɨl-Máásâɨ̂
• Portuguese: massai (pt) m pl
• Russian: масаи (ru) (masai)
• Swahili: Wamasai

Proper noun

Maasai

1. An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.

Translations

language

• Finnish: maasai (fi)
• Hungarian: maszai
• Maasai: ɔl Maa
• Portuguese: massai (pt) m
• Russian: масайский (ru) (masajskij)
• Swahili: Kimasai
• Swedish: maa (sv), massaj (sv)

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Maasai, mas ⁠

Anagrams

• Amasia