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nounproper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

Any of the foraging non-Bantu ethnic groups of southwestern Africa.

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the foraging non-Bantu ethnic groups of southwestern Africa.

Etymology

As a synonym of Bushmen introduced into ethnology from the 1960s, from Khoekhoe saan (singular saa) "foragers; people without wealth", via back-formation from Khoisan. Occasional citation as the Nama term for "Bushmen" from the 1880s.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Any of the languages spoken by these people.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish San.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).