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LUBA
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Irregular inflected form: luba
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo
Synonyms:
Luba; Tshiluba
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Luba" is a kind of...):
Bantoid language; Bantu (a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo
Synonyms:
Chiluba; Luba
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Luba" is a kind of...):
Bantu (a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa)
Holonyms ("Luba" is a member of...):
Belgian Congo; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaire (a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960)
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