sengi

Etymology 1


Borrowed from, probably from another language (compare 🇨🇬). The word was first used in print in English by the British zoologist (born 1935) in The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (1997): see the quotation.

Noun

 * 1) An elephant shrew (family ).

Usage notes
The British zoologist (born 1935) and the American zoologist  (1944–2019) argue that sengi is preferable to  since sengis have a very different evolutionary history from true shrews (order Eulipotyphla), and it is more appropriate for local names to be used for animals endemic to a particular region.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, , from (in the sense of five sous). .

Noun

 * 1)  A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued only in ten sengi coins.

Translations

 * Finnish: sengi
 * Kongo: sengi, senki
 * Macedonian:

Verb

 * 1)  to trample, tread on, stamp down
 * 2)  to push in, insert
 * 1)  to push in, insert