assegai

Plural: assegais

Noun

the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa
A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.
The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.

Verb

Verb Forms: assegaied, assegaiing, assegais

To pierce with a slender spear, same as assagai.
To spear with an assegai.

Examples

My only hope is to assegai his lead with a perfectly placed Z.

Origin / Etymology

From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).

Synonyms

assagai

Scrabble Score: 8

assegai: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
assegai: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
assegai: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

assegai: valid Words With Friends Word