Nilotic

American  

[nahy-lot-ik] / naɪˈlɒt ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Nile River or the inhabitants of the Nile region.

2. of or relating to the Nilotic group of languages.

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noun

1. a group of languages belonging to the Eastern Sudanic branch of Nilo-Saharan, and including Dinka, Luo, Masai, and Nandi.

Nilotic British  

/ naɪˈlɒtɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Nile

2. of, relating to, or belonging to a tall Negroid pastoral people inhabiting South Sudan, parts of Kenya and Uganda, and neighbouring countries

3. relating to or belonging to the group of languages spoken by the Nilotic peoples

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noun

1. a group of languages of E Africa, including Luo, Dinka, and Masai, now generally regarded as belonging to the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo-Saharan family

Etymology

Origin of Nilotic

1645–55; < Latin Nīlōticus of the Nile < Greek Neilōtikós. See Nile, -otic

Example Sentences

But this Nilotic tribe, apparently, had some media savvy.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2018

Some of the rivers in Manyuema, as the Luia and Machila, are of inky blackness, and make the whole main stream of a very Nilotic hue.

From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by Waller, Horace

He goes so far as to pronounce the latter to be Cretan importations, their fabric and forms being unlike anything Nilotic.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles, and was laid, confounded with all unutterable abortions, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot

I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.

From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas