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+==English==
+===Alternative forms===
+* [[muzungu]]
+===Etymology===
+{{etyl|sw}}
+===Noun===
+{{en-noun|pl2=wazungu}}
+# {{context|in some African countries}} A white person.
+----
 ==Swahili==
 ===Etymology===
-Cognate with Bemba {{term|musungu}}, Kikuyu {{term|muthungu}}, Kinyarwanda {{term|zungu}}, Luganda {{term|muzungu}}, Shona {{term|murungu}}, Venda {{term|mulungu}}, Zulu {{term|lungu}}.
+{{proto|Bantu|jungu|lang=sw}}.  Cognate with Bemba {{term|musungu}}, Kikuyu {{term|muthungu}}, Kinyarwanda {{term|zungu}}, Luganda {{term|muzungu}}, Shona {{term|murungu}}, Venda {{term|mulungu}}, Zulu {{term|lungu}}.
-From the verb {{term|kuzunguka}} "to go round and round" (whence also  {{term|kizunguzungu}} "dizziness"), applied to the European explorers for their "apparently wanting to go everywhere in Africa".
 ===Pronunciation===
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 # [[European]], white person
-===References===
-*Philo Ikonya, ''Leading the Night'',  African Books Collective, 2010, ISBN 9789966151001, [http://books.google.com/books?id=1hskKkjplWsC&pg=PA98&dq=mzungu+jungu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rBpXT6qwNYShOqn10PcM&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=mzungu%20jungu&f=false p. 98].
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