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Samburu

noun

Meaning

  1. Their Eastern Nilotic, North Maa language.
  2. A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.

Etymology / origin

From an old Maasai word, saamburr, for the leather bag the Samburu use.

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