daladala
noun/ˌdɑːləˈdɑːlə/
/ˌdɑːləˈdɑːlə/
East African English [dalaˈdala]
(East African English)- (in Tanzania) a privately owned road vehicle with seats for about twelve people that carries passengers and has a driver that you pay to take you somewhere, usually along a fixed route with other stops for people to get on and offTopics Transport by car or lorryc2Word OriginKiswahili, from a repetition (perhaps originally as a driver's call) of dala ‘dollar’, also the nickname of the Tanzanian five-shilling coin.
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