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noun the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa
originFrom French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0