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Impi

A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men.

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    A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men.

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zulunounA member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.
matabelenounThe Ndebele people.
grinoun(US) Initialism of Graduate of the Realtor Institute.
isibongonounA complimentary metonym used to describe members of a Zulu clan.
nguninounThe group of Southern African peoples comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Mpondo and Ndebele nations.
akicitanounA group among the Sioux peoples, having military and police-like functions.
tumbukanounThe language of these people.
fengunounA Bantu people, originally closely related to the Xhosas.
indabanoun(South Africa) (by extension) Any conference, discussion, or meeting.
pedinounThe Northern Sotho language as spoken by these people.
zanjnoun(obsolete) One of the Bantu-speaking inhabitants of this part of East Africa.
imbangalanoun(historical) 17th-century groups of Angolan warriors and marauders who founded the Kasanje Kingdom.
mpondonounA Southern African Nguni ethnic group having their traditional homeland in the modern-day Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
zoolanounArchaic form of Zulu. [A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.]
bembanounThe language of these people.
bantunoun(uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.
zimblishnounA language combining English with Zimbabwean languages, such as Shona, Zulu, Ndebele and Xhosa.
zaramonounan indigenous people of Tanzania
abelungunoun(South Africa, now chiefly derogatory) White people collectively.
mambanounAny of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.

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