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Bwana = Mr, sir, lord, master

Mabwana = gentlemen, menfolk

It is a word from the Bantu language group. There are many words from related roots in many African languages; e.g., Bafana from Zulu/Xhosa and other South African language; the national soccer team is known as Bafanabafana, the boys.

In Swahili some words from the same -ana root as bwana are:

kijana = youth

vijana = young people

mvulana = boy

ujana = abstract noun youth;

wana/wana = son or child (sing./pl.,found in hundreds of names and words, e.g., mwanafunzi student

mwanangu my child, Mwanahamisi child of hamisi wanajeshi, soldiers.)

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