massai
Portuguese, noun
massai is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “one of the Maasai (a people of Kenya and Tanzania)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grupo étnico africano, localizado no Quénia e norte da Tanzânia”.
What does massai mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineone of the Maasai (a people of Kenya and Tanzania)
noun
- 1
masculineMaasai (Eastern Nilotic language spoken by the Maasai people)
adjective
- 1
of the Maasai people
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. grupo étnico africano, localizado no Quénia e norte da Tanzânia 2. idioma desse grupo
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
English words that translate to massai
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is massai in Portuguese?
massai appears about once in every 8 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).