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Zimbabwe

proper noun

  1. African country
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/

name

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Bantu *mbá Shona imbá Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è Shona ibwe Shona dzimba-dze-mabweder. English Zimbabwe From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“houses of stones”) (see imba (“house”), ibwe (“stone”)), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

  1. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.

    “According to Ncube, the MDC believed, from 2000, that Britain's interest in Zimbabwe had more to do with concern for white farmers than black Zimbabweans.”

noun

Etymology: From the Bantu word for a meeting house.

  1. Any of the prominent cultural ruins of which Greater Zimbabwe is the most well known.