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Uhura n.

from uhuru. In one episode of Star Trek Spock says Uhura means "freedom", which is untypical of him because he should have known that this is not entirely correct (the last letter is wrong). However, he was under the influence of an alien being at the time. Uhura's first names, Penda Nyota, are both Swahili.

• "Then there was Uhura, the sexy black officer who broke taboos by engaging in TV's first interracial kiss with Captain Kirk." Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, 1999, p. 83.
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uhuru n.

from uhuru "freedom (from slavery), liberty, emancipation": freedom, liberation, national independence (particularly) in East Africa [< Swahili < Arabic].

• "Uhuru, also known as the Small Astronomical Satellite 1 (SAS-1) was the first earth-orbiting mission dedicated entirely to celestial X-ray astronomy. It was launched on 12 December 1970 from the San Marco platform in Kenya. December 12 was the seventh anniversary of the Kenyan independence and in recognition of the hospitality of the Kenyan people, the operating satellite was named Uhuru, which is the Swahili word for freedom.", "The Uhuru Satellite", NASA HEASARC.
• "To say that our people are genuinely disturbed by current developments in which the South African regime features with such dangerous prominence is precisely to express this confidence and to appeal to them to leave the world and our own people, in no doubt as to their known commitment to the total liberation, complete Uhuru and majority rule in South Africa." Oliver Tambo, "Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress", Sechaba, May 1975.
• Uhuru, by Robert Ruark, 1996.
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