Etymology

sambaza

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Today it means: The Lake Tanganyika sardine, Limnothrissa miodon. Full definition →

Swahili sambaza
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The story

  1. Swahili · borrowed fromsambaza“to disperse, scatter”
  2. English todaysambaza

Borrowed from Swahili sambaza (“to disperse, scatter”), popularized by Sambaza, a credit sharing service developed by Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom in 2005.

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