TEMBU

Meaning of TEMBU in English

ˈtem(ˌ)bü noun

( plural tembu or tembus )

Usage: usually capitalized

1. : a Bantu-speaking people of Tembuland in southern Africa

2. : a member of the Tembu people

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

TEMBU — ■ noun variant spelling of Thembu .
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TAMBOOKIE — tamˈbükē, -bu̇kē noun also tambookie thorn ( -s ) Etymology: Afrikaans tamboekie, from Tamboekie Kaffir of the Tembu tribe, probably …
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THEMBU — [ 'tɛmbu: ] (also Tembu ) ■ noun ( plural same or ~s ) a member of a Xhosa-speaking people …
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MANDELA, NELSON — born July 18, 1918, Umtata, Cape of Good Hope, S.Af. Nelson Mandela, 1990. in full Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela South African …
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ETHIOPIANISM — religious movement among sub-Saharan Africans that embodied the earliest stirrings toward religious and political freedom in the modern colonial period. …
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ETHIOPIANISM — Religious movement among sub-Saharan Africans during the colonial era. It originated in South Africa in the 1880s, with the formation …
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AFRICA — n. 25B6; noun . See list. African Peoples Acholi Mande/Mandingo Afars Mandinka Afrikaners Masai Akan Matabele Ashanti Mbuti Baganda Mende …
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