Etymology

machinga

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Today it means: A street vendor; a hawker. Full definition →

Swahili Machinga
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  1. Swahili · borrowed fromMachinga
  2. English todaymachinga

From Swahili Machinga, a small ethnic group living on the southern Indian Ocean coast of Tanzania, whose members are known to work in the cities as itinerant traders.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.