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Masai

Masai \Masai\ prop. n.

  1. A Nilotic language.

  2. An African tribe inhabiting parts of Kenya and Tanzania.

    Note: Picture of Masai women and children standing by the roadside. (Photographed in Kenya 1983 by PJC)

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Masai

Masai may refer to:

  • Masai, Johor, a place in Malaysia
  • Maasai people, an ethnic group in East Africa
  • Maasai language, language of the Maasai ethnic group
  • Masai (name), Kenyan name
Masai (name)

Masai is a name of Kenyan origin from the Maasai people that may refer to:

  • Linet Masai (born 1989), Kenyan long-distance runner and 2009 world champion
  • Edith Masai (born 1967), Kenyan long-distance runner and three-time World Cross Country champion
  • Moses Ndiema Masai (born 1986), Kenyan long-distance runner and world medallist, brother of Linet

Usage examples of "masai".

The Masai were blood-drinkers and head-hunters of this interior central country.

There had been the apparent deliberate decoying of enemy Masai warriors to their deaths in the explosion and by the other flaming package.

One, the sister of Prince Zaban, was killed by the Masai in an outbreak when she was about four years old.

Ham and Monk, the Masai had brought along two warriors who had been killed in the clash at the warehouse.

In addition to burying their warriors sitting up, with the heads outside, the Masai make a practice of sending along some living relative to keep a dead man company.

Already, he was estimating where he would start mowing down Masai with his ponderous fists.

At the points of Masai spears the captive men also were forced in the river to their waists.

The Shimba could issue a command, or his Masai warriors could swing their spears, the giant Renny became a hurtling mass of enraged flying chains and bone.

He had stayed in the open field long enough to witness the terrified reaction of the turbaned Masai, when they had discovered the empty casket.

The quaintly carved craft of the Masai lifted like a feather caught in a cyclone.

The Hudson River, the spilled Masai canoe and the lights of other water craft fell back.

He had attempted to quell an uprising of the wild Masai and the Swahili.

The Masai and the Swahili will join them in bringing back slavery, the hunting of heads, cannibalism.

The Masai and Swahili, commanded by The Shimba, were ready to join in a quick invasion.

There had been howls of rage when the Masai had discovered the Blood Idol to be missing.