variants:
or Masai
plural Maasai or Maasais or Masai or Masais
Definition of Maasai
1
: a member of a pastoral and hunting people of Kenya and Tanzania
2
: the Nilotic language of the Maasai people
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The first known use of Maasai was in 1857
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