Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe; a country in Southern Africa, Africa, a landlocked state with Harare as its capital.
Meaning & usage
Zimbabwe; a country in Southern Africa, Africa, a landlocked state with Harare as its capital.
Hun reiste gjennom Zimbabwe på vei fra Botswana til Mosambik.
Great Zimbabwe; a ruined city in Zimbabwe, southeast of Masvingo, whose ruins gave their name to the modern country.
De gamle steinmurene i Zimbabwe er blant de mest kjente kulturminnene i det sørlige Afrika.
Where this word comes from
Internationalism, based on Shona Zimbabwe, from Shona dzimbahwe (“stone house; houses of stone”), the name associated with the ruined stone city now commonly known as Great Zimbabwe. Compare Shona dzimba (“houses”), the plural of imba (“house”), and mabwe (“stones”), the plural of ibwe (“stone”). Although dzimbahwe is understood today as “houses of stone”, historical sources indicate that in the 16th century the word referred more specifically to the home, court and grave of a ruler. The modern state took the name Zimbabwe at independence in 1980, after the ruined city. Parallel international forms include Norwegian Nynorsk Zimbabwe, Danish Zimbabwe, Swedish Zimbabwe, Dutch Zimbabwe, German Simbabwe and English Zimbabwe.
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