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Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.
Tony Greig

Meaning of "Tutsi" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TUTSI

Tutsi  [ˈtuːtsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUTSI

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Tutsi is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TUTSI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tutsi

Tutsi

The Tutsi, or Abatutsi, are an ethnic group inhabiting the African Great Lakes region. Historically, they were often referred to as the Watutsi, Watusi, or the Wahuma,Wahima. The Tutsi form a subgroup of the Banyarwanda and the Barundi peoples, who reside primarily in Rwanda and Burundi, but with significant populations also found in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. They speak Rwanda-Rundi, a group of Bantu languages. The Tutsi are the second largest population division among the three largest groups in Rwanda and Burundi, the other two being the Hutu and the Twa. Small numbers of Hema, Kiga and Furiiru people also live near the Tutsi in Rwanda. The Northern Tutsi that reside in Rwanda are called Ruguru, while southern Tutsi that live in Burundi are known as Hima, and the Tutsi that inhabit the Kivu plateau in the Congo go by Banyamulenge.

Definition of Tutsi in the English dictionary

The definition of Tutsi in the dictionary is a member of a people of Rwanda and Burundi, probably a Nilotic people.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TUTSI


artsy
ˈɑːtsɪ
artsy-fartsy
ˌɑːtsɪˈfɑːtsɪ
Chertsey
ˈtʃɜːtsɪ
curtsy
ˈkɜːtsɪ
cutesy
ˈkjuːtsɪ
feminazi
ˌfemɪˈnɑːtsɪ
Nazi
ˈnɑːtsɪ
neo-Nazi
ˌniːəʊˈnɑːtsɪ
neo-Nazism
ˌniːəʊˈnɑːtsɪ
Orczy
ˈɔːtsɪ
Piozzi
ˈpjɔːtsɪ
quartzy
ˈkwɔːtsɪ
rootsy
ˈruːtsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUTSI

Tutuila
Tutuola
tutwork
tutworker
tutworkman
tutworkmen
Tuva Republic
Tuvalu
Tuvaluan
Tuvinian Autonomous Republic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUTSI

Assisi
bassi
Brindisi
dalasi
desi
Farsi
Hsi
Jhansi
Kumasi
nisi
Ossi
psi
quasi
sensi
si
Sulawesi
Tbilisi
tsotsi
Varanasi
Watutsi

Synonyms and antonyms of Tutsi in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Tutsi» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

图西族
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tutsi
570 millions of speakers

English

Tutsi
510 millions of speakers

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Tutsi
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التوتسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тутси
278 millions of speakers

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tutsi
270 millions of speakers

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হুটু
260 millions of speakers

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Tutsi
220 millions of speakers

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Tutsi
190 millions of speakers

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Tutsi
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ツチ族
130 millions of speakers

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투치족
85 millions of speakers

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Tutsi
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Tutsi
80 millions of speakers

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துட்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तुटि
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tutsi
70 millions of speakers

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Tutsi
65 millions of speakers

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Tutsi
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тутсі
40 millions of speakers

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tutsi
30 millions of speakers
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Τούτσι
15 millions of speakers
af

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Tutsi
14 millions of speakers
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Tutsi
10 millions of speakers
no

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tutsi
5 millions of speakers

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The term «Tutsi» is regularly used and occupies the 74.702 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TUTSI» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Tutsi

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QUOTES WITH «TUTSI»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Tutsi.
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Tony Greig
Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUTSI»

Discover the use of Tutsi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Tutsi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hutu and Tutsi
Surveys the culture, history, and contemporary life of the two groups involved in the tragic civil war in Rwanda, the Hutu and the Tutsi.
Aimable Twagilimana, 1998
2
The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Every Hutu should know that a Tutsi woman, wherever she is, works for the interest of her Tutsi ethnic group. As a result, we shall consider a traitor any Hutu who: marries a Tutsi woman; befriends a Tutsi woman; employs a Tutsi woman as a ...
Allan Thompson, 2007
3
Kenyan Running: Movement Culture, Geography, and Global Change
Tutsi high jumping is very well documented and we include the earliest photographic evidence of this form of movement culture as Figure 3.3. Photographed by Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg, while expeditioning across east Africa in ...
John Bale, Joe Sang, 1996
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When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the ...
Significantly, Lizinde was also the author of a book entitled The Discovery of the Kalinga, an anti- Tutsi tract describing the search for the Karinga drum. The Lizinde fac- tion was “considered to be violently anti-Tutsi and unhappy with Habyari- ...
Mahmood Mamdani, 2014
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Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook
Occupied for centuries by the two major ethnic groups that still form almost the entire population — the Hutu and Tutsi — the region came under German control as German East Africa in the late 1800s until, following the defeat of Germany in ...
David Levinson, 1998
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Women of Tropical Africa
(The traditional Rundi rule favouring cross-cousin marriage is being abandoned by all classes of the population as the influence of Christianity increases). No other women than those of the very good Tutsi patrilineages can rise socially by ...
Denise Paulme, 1963
7
Culture and Customs of Rwanda
These include the Hutu, with about 84 percent of the population, the Tutsi (15%), and the Twa (1%). The Twa (Pygmy) hunters and potters are considered the indigenous people. The Hutu and Tutsi who migrated to the region at different times ...
Julius Adekunle, 2007
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Genocide in International Law: The Crimes of Crimes
In light of all the evidence before it, the Chamber is satisfied that the acts of rape and sexual violence described above, were committed solely against Tutsi women, many of whom were subjected to the worst public humiliation, mutilated, and ...
William Schabas, 2000
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The Men Who Killed Me: Rwandan Survivors of Sexual Violence
To desensitize the Hutu masses, hate radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (rtlM) continuously referred to Tutsi as cockroaches and snakes.15 In the December 1990 issue of Kangura, an influential Rwandan newspaper, the  ...
Anne-Marie De Brouwer, Sandra Ka Hon Chu, 2012
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The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda
Ironically, these first victims of violence by the extremist Hutu organizers and perpetrators of the genocide were mainly fellow Hutu — moderates and those who had allied themselves with the Tutsi rebels.19 On the first full day of killing, April 7, ...
Alan J. Kuperman, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUTSI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Tutsi is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Our children should not forgive us': Rwanda women killers recall …
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women jailed in a Kigali prison for murdering their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda's 1994 genocide talk about the killings ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
2
21st Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda …
KIGALI, Rwanda, April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- This year Rwanda will mark the 21st Commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi. It is an important ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
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Rwandan leader accuses BBC of denying 1994 Tutsi genocide
Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Tuesday accused BBC of denying the 1994 Tutsi genocide through a documentary aired for the first time in early October ... «StarAfrica.com, Oct 14»
4
UN Peacekeepers Can Be Sued for Forsaking Tutsi
Belgian UN peacekeepers who abandoned hundreds of refugees to be killed by the Interahamwe militia during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 14»
5
Not Hutu or Tutsi but Rwandan
“Are you Tutsi or Hutu” is another recurring question that I have come to contend with. At an International Pentecostal Church, I was confronted by an Indian man, ... «Patheos, May 14»
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Teaching Difficult Histories: Rwanda's Post-Genocide Experience
Emphasis on ethnic identities in the classroom, as well as rote learning of a version of history that portrayed the Tutsi as colonizing immigrants to Rwanda, ... «National Geographic, Apr 14»
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Editorial: Reconciliation after Rwanda's genocide
Twenty years ago, the world reacted in slow-motion horror as ethnic rivalry between Rwanda's Hutu and Tutsi peoples erupted in genocide. More than 800,000 ... «Dallas Morning News, Apr 14»
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New seeds of conflict: 20 years post-genocide, there are fears that …
Teachers have been arrested for not following the “official” government version of the genocide, which emphasizes most of the victims were Tutsis. It plays down ... «National Post, Apr 14»
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Global communities continue commemorating 1994 Genocide …
As Rwanda continues, for 100 days, to remember the more than 1 million Tutsi killed during the 1994 Genocide, more communities worldwide have joined in ... «News Of Rwanda Group, Apr 14»
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Real Rwandan genocide & brainwashing of the Western mind
To begin with, 'Hutu' and 'Tutsi' are socio-economic and socio-political categories: these are not 'tribes'. Most of the 'Rwanda Genocide' narrative is mythology ... «RT, Apr 14»

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