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| | Swahili English: H |
 | | from hakuna matata "no difficulties": no troubles, problems, worries or cares [< Swahili hakuna "there is no, there are no" < ha- prefix signifying negation + -kuna "there is, there are" + matata plural of tata "tangle, mess, difficulty, perplexity"]. |
 | | Hakuna matata!" lyrics by Tim Rice, "Hakuna Matata", The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1994. |
 | | Taken alone, hakuna means "there are none" and is one way of simply answering "no", since there is no single word for "no" in Swahili. |
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