lulua
lulua Lexical Profile
• noun
A member of a Bantu-speaking ethnic group indigenous to the Kasai River valley region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"The Lulua are renowned for their highly intricate and distinctively scarified wooden statues."
The Bantu language or dialect spoken by the Lulua people, closely related to Luba-Kasai.
"During his anthropological fieldwork, the researcher learned to converse fluently in Lulua."
A major river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that flows northward to join the Kasai River.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the Bantu name for the Lulua River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The ethnic group (Bena Lulua) historically settled along its banks, taking their name from the waterway.
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