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Ngami

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[ng-gah-mee] / ŋˈgɑ mi /

noun

  1. Lake, a shallow marshy lake in NW Botswana, N of the Kalahari desert. About 40 miles (64 km) long.


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Those plaintiffs are the families of 24-year-old Samya Rose Stumo, and of a married Kenyan couple, Jared Babu Mwazo and Mercy Ngami Ndivo, who left behind a baby.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

The other region is the Kalahari Desert and the country north of it between Lake Ngami and the Upper Zambesi.

From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

Across the great Kalahari Desert moved the exploring family, till they came to the river called Zouga, which, said the natives, led to a large lake named Lake Ngami.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

The Kalahari desert, Ovampo-land, Lake Ngami, the Mababi veldt, and the Zambesi country, were all well known to him, for in all of them he had traded, hunted and, on occasion, fought.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden

A somewhat assertive up-country trader, lately returned from the Ngami region, had just finished a highly-coloured narrative, in which a couple of lions had been easily vanquished.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by H.A. Bryden

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