English words from Tswana
- BotswanaBechuanaland, fully the Bechuanaland Protectorate, a colony of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1966
- KalahariA large desert in Southern Africa, including much of Botswana, and part of Namibia and Northern Cape, South Africa.
- pulaRain, used as an expression of greeting or good luck.
- GaboroneThe capital city of Botswana.
- tahaThe yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer, especially the southern subspecies taha.
- tsetseAny fly of the genus Glossina, native to Africa, that feeds on human and animal blood; known primarily as a carrier of parasitic trypanosomes.
- SetswanaA language spoken widely in Southern Africa, mainly in Botswana and South Africa in the Northern Cape, the central and western Free State and in the North West province, and also, to a lesser extent, in Namibia, also known as Tswana.
- TswanaA Bantu people living in Botswana and South Africa.
- KgalagadiA member of a Tswana people chiefly living in the Kalahari Desert.
- mokoroA dugout canoe, especially as used in the Okavango Swamps of Botswana.
- BophuthatswanaA former bantustan in the northwestern region of South Africa.
- mopaneA tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to southern Africa.
- lechweKobus leche, an African antelope that inhabits marshy regions.
- thebeA subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a pula.
- MmabathoThe former capital of the North-West Province of South Africa.
- marulaA medium-sized dioecious tree, Sclerocarya birrea, indigenous to Southern Africa and West Africa.
- boreleA black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).
- kaamaThe hartebeest.
- keitloaA variety of the black rhinoceros.
- kgosanaIn Tswana society, the head of a kgotla or ward.
- kgosiA tribal chief among the Tswana people of southern Africa.
- kgotlaAny of several types of public meeting in a Botswana village, especially one involving a gathering of tribal elders.
- kokoonA gnu; a brindled gnu.
- kori bustardA species of bustard, Ardeotis kori, which is the largest flying bird native to Africa.
- lekgotlaA consultative process between groups pursuing a common goal.
- leoboA type of thatched shelter, often part of a kgotla.
- masotlaA field cultivated as tribute for the chief.
- matimelaThe management of stray cattle.
- moloiA magician, witch, wizard, or other magic-user, especially in traditional tribal society.
- mophatoIn Tswana culture, people in the same age group considered as a "regiment".
- motlopiThe shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca), an evergreen tree native to southern and tropical Africa which is one of the most important forage trees of the Kalahari.
- motokwanecannabis; marijuana
- motswakoA subgenre of hip hop music popular in Southern Africa.
- MotswanaA member of the Tswana tribe of southern Africa, especially an inhabitant of Botswana; a Botswanan.
- motswereThe tree Combretum imberbe or its wood; leadwood.
- ngakaA traditional Sotho witch doctor.
- tsessebeA large African antelope, Damaliscus lunatus (formerly Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartebeest, but having its horns regularly curved.