Amandebelen.adj.
/ˌamaəndəˈbɛli/, /ˌamaəndəˈbeɪli/, /ˌamaəndəˈbiːli/, U.S. /ˌæmæəndəˈbɛli/, /ˌæmæəndəˈbeɪli/, /ˌæmæəndəˈbili/, South African English /ˌʌmʌəndəˈbeli/, /ˌʌmʌəndəˈbiːli/, /ˌʌmʌənˈdebele/ A. n.
= Ndebele n.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages > Ndebele
Setebele1835
Amandebele1872
Tebele1883
Sindebele1913
Ndebele1939
1872 T. M. Thomas 11 Years in Central S. Afr. 153 The Amandebele are divided into three divisions.
1898 B. Mitford Induna's Wife 5 At that place we met in fierce battle and rolled back the night of Dingane and thus saved the Amandebeli as a nation.
1930 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. viii. 187 The Zulu-Xosa, chiefly in the coastal region south and east of Drakenberg Mountains,..include..the Amandebele (Matabele) of Matabeleland.
1939 Man 110 127/1 It was the general custom among the Amandebele that malefactors executed by order of the king were not buried.
1992 Current Anthropol. 33 Suppl. 196/2 Tlou and Campbell describe a battle between the Ngwaketse and the Amandebele in the Dutlwe area ca. 1830.
B. adj.
= Ndebele adj.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages
Kaffir1588
Kongo1597
Xhosa1812
Amapondo1830
Zulu1839
Sesotho1844
Swahilian1846
Kikuyu1850
Bantu1858
Fan1861
Amandebele1872
Nyamwezi1872
Wagogo1878
Lunda1879
Luganda1882
Sotho1883
Gogo1891
Tonga1891
Chichewa1897
Ronga1897
Bemba1904
Ila1907
Tsonga1907
Meru1908
Chewa1909
Venda1913
Lingala1922
Luba1922
Pedi1922
Nyanja1923
Nguni1929
Ndebele1930
Lobedu1937
Tiv1939
Mongo1961
Siswati1964
1872 T. M. Thomas 11 Years in Central S. Afr. 153 The other division are the Amaholi... These were the aborigines of the present Amandebele country.
1966 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 9 59 The Rhodesian Bantu Voters' Association, which in many ways was a Matabeleland organization, appealing principally to amaNdebele people.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1872