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Muganda|muːˈgændə|
Also 9 Mganda. Pl. Baganda n. and a.
[Bantu ganda + sing. prefix mu.]
A native or inhabitant of the former kingdom of Buganda, now a province of Uganda; hence, loosely, any native or inhabitant of Uganda. Also attrib. and as adj.
1862J. H. Speke Jrnl. Discovery Source of Nile (1863) xi. 299 Turning round with true Mganda impetuosity, he walked away. Ibid. 313 Every Mganda will say the first Uganda year dates from the arrival of the first Mzungŭ (white) visitor. 1889R. P. Ashe Two Kings Uganda xxiii. 287 A Muganda mother takes no little pride in her child. Ibid. 290 Should any person of position suddenly address a Muganda, he should politely reply, ‘Kabaka’. 1905J. F. Cunningham Uganda ix. 185 A Muganda chief looks with loathing on all work in the fields. 1908Daily Chron. 24 Dec. 4/6 Buganda is the country, a Muganda is an individual native, the Baganda are the natives as a whole, and Luganda is the language. 1971Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 11/7 Possibly he was the greatest Muganda patriot in the four hundred years of the Buganda kingdom's history. |