Tutsi

Examples

• All

• He says his mother is a Tutsi.

  Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)

• There are now 800 Tutsi and Hutu refugees.

  Hotel Rwanda (2004)

• Now, they have come back, these Tutsi rebels.

  Hotel Rwanda (2004)

• Some people say the glory of our Tutsi past should be forgotten.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Are you a Hutu or a Tutsi?

  Hotel Rwanda (2004)

• Many of the hundreds of thousands of Tutsi who remained were also wealthy and well-educated.

  Academic text (1997)

• What was the role of lineages, which included both Tutsi and Hutu, in the social and political system?

  Academic text (1997)

• In my grandmother's day, a Tutsi woman like myself would never find anything to envy in a Hutu.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) comprised mainly Tutsi who had fled Rwanda years before.

  Academic text (1999)

• He says his mother is a Tutsi.

Synonyms

W

Watusi

vsTutsi

1 9.9

A group of people from Rwanda and Burundi who are also called Tutsi

is the more commonly used name for that group

W

Watutsi

vsTutsi

9.8

A person from the Tutsi people of Rwanda and Burundi

is the standard form more widely used for that group

Surface Forms

Etymology