{"id":40345,"date":"2020-02-20T05:35:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T04:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/?p=40345"},"modified":"2023-08-03T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:31:15","slug":"sbwl-meaning-and-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/sbwl-meaning-and-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of SBWL?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the meaning of SBWL?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"ui_qtext_rendered_qtext\">SBWL is a South African slang acronym from the <span class=\"qlink_container\">Xhosa<\/span> language, originating from the word &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/sbwl-song\/\"><span class=\"qlink_container\">sabaweli<\/span><\/a>&#8221; which means crave, desire, <span class=\"qlink_container\">yearn<\/span> or want. It is most often used for things that one cannot have. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is said to have been created <span class=\"ui_qtext_rendered_qtext\">by gay men on social media who used the term to hide their desire for men.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Sabaweli<\/b>, which in turn is a shorthand of \u201candisabaweli, andisayibaweli, etc.\u201d, is built from the root verb \u201cukubawela\u201d which means <strong>to crave<\/strong>, <strong>to want<\/strong>, <strong>to desire<\/strong>, <b>to wish for<\/b>, <strong>to fancy<\/strong>, <strong>to yearn<\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Xhosa) Andisayibaweli (sabaweli\/sbwl) inyama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>I\u2019m craving meat.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Xhosa) Andisabaweli (sabaweli\/sbwl) uya eLondon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>I wish to go to London.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Xhosa) Andisakubaweli (sabaweli\/sbwl)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On its own, the meaning of <b>sbwl<\/b> depends on the context. For example, what was being talked about before one responded with sbwl. Maybe there\u2019s a picture of a sexy guy\/ girl, in which case it means you fancy that guy\/girl or want to f$*k him\/her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning of SBWL? SBWL is a South African slang acronym from the Xhosa language, originating from the word &#8220;sabaweli&#8221; which means crave, desire, yearn or want. It is most often used for things that one cannot have. It is said to have been created by gay men on social media who used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amapiano.co\/za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}