Dar es Salaam
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- proper noun
- The Most Reverend Valentine Mokiwa, Bishop of the Diocese of Dar es Salaam and Primate of Tanzania, welcomed us.
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- main shopping area of Dar es Salaam
Examples
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Most of the unrest occurred in Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam's main shopping area, where conflict erupted between Asian shopkeepers and African street vendors, known as machingas.
Academic text (1998) -
My first appointment as a professor was about 35 years ago, when the University of Kuopio in Finland seconded me to the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
Academic text (2016) -
Most visitors fly from Dar es Salaam into one of the reserve's tented camps.
Academic text (1998) -
Not knowing in advance which films they might be permitted to see, few took the trouble of making the long walk across town to Dar es Salaam's Indian neighborhood, where most of the cinemas were located.
Academic text (2005) -
We'll take a fishing boat from the port city of Dar es Salaam out to a small island with a burning white beach.
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Ikangaa owns what he calls a small house in the capital of Dar es Salaam.
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In Tanzania, Jason spoke with a 59-year-old fishmonger in the central market in the port city of Dar es Salaam.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Dar + es + Salaam
This is a toponym (proper name) of Arabic origin whose parts are not productive English words for most learners; even if a learner recognised 'dar' as 'house' and 'salaam' as 'peace', that would not allow them to infer 'the capital and largest city of Tanzania'. Place names are lexicalised and often arbitrary in meaning, so the referent (a specific city) cannot be derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Dar es Salaam comes from Arabic words. The word dar means 'house' and salaam means 'peace', so the name literally means 'house of peace' and is the name of the big city on Tanzania's east coast.