Depends on the context.

According to urban dictionary:

Gwen: adj. describing an attractive female; named after Gwen Stefani

Man, that girl at the club was so Gwen!

Gwen: Verb - To repeatedly fall out of a chair or off of a table Wow, you just pulled a Gwen.

Gwen:slang for a cigarette progression from cigarette to Cig, cigweno, cigwens, to gweno, to Gwen

"hey bro u got an extra Gwen on u"

Gwen: A slang word used to describe a woman of Asian decent without making racial slurs.

'Gwen gook'

Can be used with the male slang 'Gary'

"Hey that ping pong show was awesome"

"Yeah Gwen was very talented."

or

"There is Gwen, Gary and their son luke gook."

Other Bantu languages include

* in Central and Eastern Africa o Swahili o Lingala o Luganda o Gĩkũyũ o Bukusu o Lusoga o Kikongo o Chichewa o Chiyao o Kihaya o Kichagga o Kinyarwanda o Kirundi * in Southern Africa o Shona o Ndebele (Sindebele) o Tswana (Setswana) o Sesotho o Zulu (isiZulu) o Xhosa o Sepedi o Swazi * in West Africa o Ngumba (Cameroon) o Kako (Cameroon) o Basaa (Cameroon)

Some are usually known in English without the class prefix (Swahili instead of Kiswahili, etc.), and some others vary (Setswana or Tswana, Sindebele or Ndebele, etc.). The bare form typically does not occur in the language: in the country of Botswana the people are the Batswana, one person is a Motswana, and the language is Setswana.

Today most linguists see the center of the Bantu expansion, that started about 2000 years before present in eastern Nigeria and Cameroon.[edit]

(Narrow) Bantu languages

* Bemba * Songa * Northwest o Zone A o Zone B o Zone C * Central o Zone D (Lengola, Enya, Mbole, Mituku, Bembe, Buyu, Nyanga, Bhele (Piri), Bila, Bodo, Bera (Bira), Budu, Homa, Kaiku, Komo, Kango, Ndaka, Nyali, Amba, Vanuma, Mbo, Kare, Bali, Beeke, Hamba, Holoholo, Kanu, Kwami, Shabunda-Lega, Mwenga-Lega, Lika, Songoora (Dialects: Gengele, North Binja, South Binja), Zimba) o Zone E (Gweno, Kahe, Chaga (Chaga languages: Machame Mochi, Rombo, Vunjo), Rusa, Malakote, Chonyi, Digo, Duruma, Giryama (Nyika), Segeju, Pokomo (Upper and Lower), Taita, Sagalia, Logoli, Kabwa, Gusii, Ikizu, Kuria, Ngurimi, Ikoma (Nata), Temi (Sonjo), Suba, Sizaki, Ware, Zanaki, Dhaiso, Embu, Gikuyu, Chuka, Meru, Tharaka, Mwimbi, Muthambi) o Zone F (Bende, Fipa, Mambwe, Lungu, Pimbwe, Rungwa, Tongwe, Konongo, Kimbu, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sumbwa, Bungu, Langi, Mbugwe, Nilamba, Nyaturu (Rimi), Mbugu) o Zone G o Zone H o Zone J o Zone K o Zone L (Bwile, Kaonde, Nkoya, Mbwera, Bangubangu, Binji, Kete, Luna, Songe, Mbagani, Budya, Hemba, Kanyok, Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga, Lwalu, Sanga) o Zone M o Zone N (Manda, Mantengo, Ngoni, Tonga, Mpoto, Nyanja, Tumbuka, Nsenga, Barwe, Kunda, Nyungwe, Phimbi, Sena, Malawi Sena, Podzo, Rue) o Zone P (Yao, Mwera, Makonde, Machinga, Nyasa, Mabiha, Ndonde Hamba, Ndendeule, Matumbi, Mbunga, Ndengereko, Ngindo, Nindi, Rufiji, Chuwabu, Maindo, Koti, Kokola, Lolo, Manyawa, Lomwe, Ngulu, Marenje, Takwane, Makua, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makhuwa-Moniga, Makhuwa-Shirima, Makhuwa-Marrevone, Makhuwa-Saka) o Zone R (Herero, Zemba, Yeyi, Umbundu (South Mbundu), Ndombe, Nyaneka, Nkhumbi, Kwanyama, Ndonga, Kwambi, Ngandyera, Mbalanhu) o Zone S (Dema, Kalanga, Manyika, Ndau, Nambya, Shona, Zezuru, Tawara, Tewe, Chopi, Tonga-Inhambane, Ronga Tsonga, Tonga, Tswa, Venda, Swati (Swazi), Xhosa, Zulu, Zimbabwe Ndebele, North Transvaal Ndebele, South Transvaal Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Birwa, Kgalagadi, Lozi, Tswana, Tswapong) o Unclassified (Boguru, Gbati-ri, Isanzu, Ngbee, Kari, Mayeka, Ngbinda, Nyanga-li, Songo)

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Some Bantu words in popular Western culture

* Samba * Banjo * Rumba * Conga * Mambo * Zombie * Bongos * Gumbo * Jumbo * La Bamba * Marimba