Etymology

ujamaa

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Today it means: A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s. Full definition →

Swahili ujamaa ← Arabic جَمَاعَة
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromجَمَاعَة“group (of people)”
  2. Swahili · borrowed fromujamaa“brotherhood, extended family”
  3. English todayujamaa

Borrowed from Swahili ujamaa (“brotherhood, extended family”), from jamaa (“family”), from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa, “group (of people)”).

Words from the same roots

Arabicجَمَاعَة all →

jamaat

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.