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Ma⋅sai

[muh-sahy]
–noun, plural -sais, (especially collectively) -sai.
1. a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
2. the Nilotic language of the Masai.
Also, Maasai.
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Ma·sai   (mä-sī', mä'sī)   
n.   pl. Masai or Ma·sais
  1. A member of a chiefly pastoral people of Kenya and parts of Tanzania.

  2. also Maa·sai The Nilotic language of this people.

Ma·sai' adj.
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