Meaning of heita | Babel Free

Definitions

Greeting, hello; hi

South-Africa, colloquial

Examples

“I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."”

“‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group.”

“‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?).”

CEFR level