Sesotho
Americannoun
noun
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It means "forget me not" in the Sesotho language and is also used to say goodbye.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
The name is thought to come from "wafamola", a word in Lesotho's language, Sesotho, meaning "flaring" or "flicking up" of a skirt, a reference to the exuberant way women danced to the music.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2022
But the way the picture looks typified another quality of his work, something Mofokeng has encapsulated through a word in his native Sesotho language: seriti.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2017
Berger named the site Malapa, a word that in the Sesotho language means “homestead.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2016
Sesotho is the language of the Sotho people as well as the Tswana, a large number of whom live in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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