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‖ intombi|ɪnˈtɒmbiː|
[Xhosa, Zulu i-ntombi maiden.]
(See quot. 1913.)
1809R. Collins Jrnl. in D. Moodie Record: Papers Native Tribes S. Afr. (1842) v. 46 Cattle are never given for a Tumbee, but her father or brother is supplied with assagays by her keeper. 1833S. Kay Trav. Caffraria xviii. 470 ‘That,’ said he, ‘contains the body of an intombi (young woman) who was killed by lightning from heaven, about two years ago.’ 1855J. W. Colenso Ten Weeks in Natal 26 There is another special one [sc. reason] for the young men wishing to go home from time to time—namely, to make acquaintance with the intombies, or young women, whom they will one day acquire for wives. 1913C. Pettman Africanderisms 228 Intombi,..a girl or young unmarried woman. 1947L. Hastings Dragons are Extra vi. 118 The little girls, the intombis, were busy with bunches of twigs tidying up the huts. |