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Zulu Common

Zulu has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities

2

a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa

3

a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa

4

An individual member of the Zulu people.

Adjective
1

Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.

Proper Noun
1

An African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.

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Origin

The word comes from the Zulu language, where umZulu originally referred to a specific type of reed or grass that grows in swamps. Over time, the name was adopted to designate the people who lived near these reed-filled wetlands.

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