Usually means: Traditional healer in South Africa.
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  1. sangoma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sangoma: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. Sangoma, sangoma: Wordnik
  5. sangoma: Wiktionary
  6. sangoma: Dictionary.com
  7. Sangoma (disambiguation), Sangoma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. sangoma: Rhymezone
  9. sangoma: FreeDictionary.org
  10. sangoma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. sangoma: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (South Africa and other parts of Southern Africa) A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.

Similar:
inyanga, mganga, ngaka, mundunugu, imbongi, igqira, sanza, bomoh, mbusa, maskanda, more...

Opposite:
non-believer, modernist, Westerner.

Types:
inyanga, izinyanga, isangoma, isangomsangoma, sangominyanga, more...

Phrases:
Sangoma Technologies Corporation, more...

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Similar:
inyanga, mganga, ngaka, mundunugu, imbongi, igqira, sanza, bomoh, mbusa, maskanda, more...

Opposite:
non-believer, modernist, Westerner.

Types:
inyanga, izinyanga, isangoma, isangomsangoma, sangominyanga, more...

Phrases:
Sangoma Technologies Corporation, more...



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