"Safari" Just Means "A Trip" 🐪 Arabic → Swahili → English #etymology #shorts

Where does "safari" come from? Arabic safar, "journey", passed into Swahili as safari, meaning any journey at all. Explorer Richard Burton recorded it in English in 1859, and English narrowed the meaning to a hunting or wildlife expedition.

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