variants
or Masai
plural Maasai or Maasais or Masai or Masais
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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Since 2022, the Tanzanian government had relocated more than 9,600 Maasai from this corner of the country.
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Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
The Maasai Mara is iconic because of the Great Migration.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024
By staying there, guests also contribute to the lodge’s Big Life Foundation which helps to preserve the Maasai traditional lifestyle and works to combat poaching.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
The irony is that those savannah lands only look like that because they’ve been grazed by the Maasai’s cattle for thousands of years.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
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Kizito Makoye, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
The Maasai Mara is iconic because of the Great Migration.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024
By staying there, guests also contribute to the lodge’s Big Life Foundation which helps to preserve the Maasai traditional lifestyle and works to combat poaching.
—Laurie Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
The irony is that those savannah lands only look like that because they’ve been grazed by the Maasai’s cattle for thousands of years.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
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“Maasai.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Maasai. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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