Name that's Swahili for "lion"

Usage examples of simba.

He who rules is always called Simba, and has been so called for hundreds of years.

Still, as we would avoid bloodshed if we may, we desire to explain to you, messengers of King Simba, that we are here upon a peaceful errand.

Now, give to us these white men that we may offer them to the god, and perchance Simba the King will let you go through.

Now return to Simba the King, and say to Simba that if he lifts a spear against us the threefold curse of the Child shall fall upon him and upon you his people: The curse of Heaven by storm or by drought.

Now in proof of his good faith, let Simba draw near and drink the cup of peace with us, for we thirst.

This Simba was a fine and rather terrifying person with a large moustache and a chin shaved except for a little tuft of hair which he wore at its point like an Italian.

Prophet Marut, my enemy, have heard the terms of me, Simba the King, and have accepted them.

Wending our way along the road that ran through the tall corn, for here every inch was cultivated, we came suddenly upon the capital of the Black Kendah, which was known as Simba Town.

Behind it the king, Simba, was seated on a stool with various councillors about him.

Whilst I was wondering what exact portion of my frame was destined to become acquainted with that spear, of a sudden Simba gave it up.

Now lightning flashed across the heavens, and by the glare of it we perceived that all the population of Simba Town seemed to be gathered in the market-place.

Through it appeared Simba the King, the diviner with the injured foot walking upon crutches, and others of whom the most were more or less wounded, presumably by the hailstones.

At length the great orb began to sink in majesty behind the tattered western forest, and, punctual to the minute, Simba, with a mounted escort of some twenty men and two led horses, appeared at our gate.

Lord, all we can do is to go forward, for if we stay here Simba and his people will return and kill us at the daylight.

Then by the light of the moon he tracked us, avoiding the villages, and ultimately found a place of shelter in a kind of cave in the forest near to Simba Town, where no people lived.