Matabele
Americannoun
noun
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Now known as: Ndebele. a member of a formerly warlike people of southern Africa, now living in Zimbabwe: driven out of the Transvaal by the Boers in 1837
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the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
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Etymology
Origin of Matabele
First recorded in 1815–25
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He also wants to identify and analyse the antibiotics used by Matabele ants in cooperation with chemistry research groups.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 2, 2024
In Mozambique, Wilson studied the Matabele ant, a species that favors termites as food.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020
Matabele ants, native to sub-Saharan Africa, lay siege to the termite colonies they eat by the hundreds, braving the potentially life-threatening bites of large soldier termites that defend them.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2018
Then, in the 1940s, the trade unions formed in Bulawayo were led by shop stewards who also captained the Zimbabwean teams Matabele Highlanders and Red Army.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2015
The Matabele woman grasped her from the front, holding her in a tight embrace, and the spirit of Long Teats suddenly fled into the blinding sunlight.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The Matabeles and Mashona tribes between them contrived to render the country uninhabitable.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis
It was impossible for the Matabeles to understand the wisdom of this procedure.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
Umkopo, as the name suggests, had something to do with the Zulus or Matabeles.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
They reached the other bank only to find Forbes hotly engaged with another force of the Matabeles.
From Real Soldiers of Fortune by Davis, Richard Harding
You pass from the green low-lands to the bare frontiers of the rocky domain where the Matabeles fled after the second war and where the Father of Rhodesia held his historic parleys with them.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
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