dumela

/ dʊˈmɛlə /

sentence substitute

1. hello; good morning

Word History and Origins

Origin of dumela¹

Sotho

Example Sentences

HHP paid American rapper Nas close to $10,000 for a verse on the former's album Dumela – only to find that Nas had reused the verse on his own album with Damian Marley, Distant Relatives.

From The Guardian

That the body of the latter had suffered no violence after death might have been due to the respect in which he had been held while living, whereas the noosed ram which had been placed around the neck of the boy seemed to add a lurid significance to old Dumela’s words, “‘Justice—the white man’s justice—has not been done,’ they say.”

From Project Gutenberg

Dumela glanced at me impatiently, eke somewhat contemptuously.

From Project Gutenberg

“Here’s old Dumela saying he wants to leave.”

From Project Gutenberg

“Well, we’d better see him, at any rate,” said Brian, and calling one of the boys, despatched him to Dumela’s hut to fetch the stranger.

From Project Gutenberg