bantu

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Ban=tu

CIDE DICTIONARY

bantu, 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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  the family of languages spoken by the Bantu people (definition 1).  [PJC]

bantu, adj. 

•  Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  of or pertaining to the Bantu people (definition 1).  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bantu, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. same or Bantus)
1 often offens. a a large group of Negroid peoples of central and southern Africa. b a member of any of these peoples.
2 the group of languages spoken by them.
--adj. of or relating to these peoples or languages.

Etymology

Bantu, = people