单词 | ngwaketse |
释义 | Ngwaketsen.adj. A member of a southern African people inhabiting Botswana. Also as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > other peoples of Southern Africa Zimba1625 Tambouki1786 Hottentot1795 Morolong1815 Oorlam1815 Barolong1823 Tembu1827 Fingo1829 Ngwaketsea1832 Ovaherero1851 Lunda1857 Herero1862 Swazi1878 Magwamba1884 Khoisan1929 Rolong1937 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions Angolan1600 Angola1653 Malay1765 South African1806 Ngwaketsea1832 bushboya1834 Kapenaar1834 Transkeian1847 bosch-man1849 Natalian1850 burgher1879 Transvaaler1887 veldman1895 Rhodesian1897 Vaalpens1899 backvelder1911 plattelander1934 southwester1960 Zimbabwean1961 Zambian1963 Botswanian1966 Botswanan1967 Namibian1968 Ciskeian1973 Sowetan1974 1822 Missionary Notices 29 Sept. 214 One of these visitors having frequently travelled amongst the Manketsens, Boschianas, and Marootzes, to the north and north-east of Griqua Town, gave us much more information respecting that country.] a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIX. 664/2 The Wánketsens, or Nuánketsens, whose Capital is Melíta. 1871 J. Mackenzie Ten Years (1971) 102 The Matabele were evidently meditating a raid of a similar nature upon the Bangwaketse... Mzilikazi's army swooped down upon the evacuated city like so many vultures thirsting for Ngwaketse blood. 1946 Man 46 20/2 He [sc. the Chief] can abolish religious ceremonies, as circumcision was abolished among the Ngwaketse. 1973 Curernt Anthropol. 14 487 Arc and point settlement units seem characteristic of modern Ngwato, Ngwaketse, and Kwena communities. 1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 45 In the eighteenth century two new important Tswana chiefdoms were founded after breaking away from the Kwena. First the Ngwaketse broke away. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1832 |
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