matatu
noun /mæˈtætuː/
/mæˈtætuː/
East African English [maˈtatu]
(East African English)- (in Kenya) a small, privately owned bus, often decorated with pictures, words or phrases, that carries passengers and has a driver that you pay to take you somewhere, usually along a fixed route with other stops for people to get on and off
Topics Transport by car or lorryc2马塔图小巴士(肯尼亚的一种私营公交车,车身上常涂有彩绘图案或文字) 词源Swahili, short for mapeni matatu ‘thirty cents’, a flat fare charged in the early 1960s.