Ban·tu /ˈbæn(ˌ)tu, ˈbɑn-/
  班圖人,班圖語
  Ban·tu prop. n. A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa.  These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person; or as in Watusi.
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  Bantu
       adj : of or relating to the African people who speak one of the
             Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu
             population of Sierra Leone"
       n 1: a member of any of a large number of linguistically related
            peoples of Central and South Africa
       2: a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of
          the African continent [syn: Bantoid language]