gofu

How to say it

Meaning

Golf, the game in which players hit a small ball with clubs into a series of holes; also, in a separate older sense, the ruin of a building or a person worn thin by illness.

Good to know

As the game it has no plural: mchezo wa gofu, uwanja wa gofu. As a ruin it is a ji/ma class noun, plural magofu: magofu ya Kilwa, the ruins of Kilwa.

Examples

• Baba yangu hucheza gofu kila Jumamosi.My father plays golf every Saturday.
• Hoteli hiyo ina uwanja mkubwa wa gofu.That hotel has a large golf course.
• Watalii walitembelea magofu ya mji wa kale.The tourists visited the ruins of the old town.

Forms

gol'u