Samburu

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Definitions

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

Etymology

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

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