Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.

    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. (UK, countable, dated, ethnic, slang, slur, uncountable)Any black person.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time.

    Noon MST is 19:00 Zulu.

    Zulu, Zulus, Zulu

    зулу́сzulús

Examples

4 sentences
  1. South Africa is called "iNingizimu Afrika" in Zulu.

  2. The Zulu tribe in South Africa has its own language.

    ruУ племени зулу в Южной Африке есть свой язык. — odexed

    deDer Zulustamm in Südafrika hat seine eigene Sprache. — Waldelfe

  3. We believe, as the Zulus say, that no elephant ever found its trunk too heavy.

    deWir glauben, dass es, wie die Zulu sagen, noch keinen Elefanten gab, dem sein Rüssel je zu schwer geworden wäre. — driini

  4. I'm learning Zulu.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
member of the Zulu people:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Zulu people (plural):

Origin

Derived from Zulu uḿZulu.

Derived from Zulu uḿZulu.

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Forms

plural: Zulu / Zulus

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a Bantu language of considerable literary importance in southeastern Africa:Zulu language

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
Zulu — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto