English Explanatory Dictionary

Mambookie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of Mpondo (“a Bantu people group indigenous to South Africa or a member of it”).
adj
  1. Synonym of Mpondo (“of or relating to the people group”).

Word forms

Mambookie Mambookies Mambuki Mambucki

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably from Xhosa amaMbo or Zulu amaMbo affixed with the Afrikaans -ie diminutive; compare Tambookie. Alternatively a Khoekhoe term. First attested in 1786.

Synonyms

Mpondo
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