Crossword clues for impi
impi
- African warrior unit
- Member returned flanked by two warriors?
- Member in current international band of armed fighters
- One male leading holy warriors
- Politician flanked by eleven Zulu warriors
- Body of Zulu warriors
- Tribesmen politician encountered in islands
- This writer's linked with religious warriors
- Kaffir warrior group
- Kaffir war party
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impi \Im"pi\ ([i^]m"p[i^]), n. [Zulu.] A body of Kaffir warriors; a body of native armed men. [South Africa]
As early as 1862 he crossed assagais with and defeated
a Matabili impi (war band).
--James Bryce.
Wiktionary
n. A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men.
Wikipedia
Impi is a Zulu word for any armed body of men. However, in English it is often used to refer to a Zulu regiment, which is called an ibutho in Zulu. Its beginnings lie far back in historic tribal warfare customs, when groups of armed men called impis battled. They were systematised radically by the Zulu king Shaka, who was then only the exiled illegitimate son of king Senzangakhona, but already showing much prowess as a general in the army of Mthethwa king Dingiswayo in the Mthethwa- Ndwandwe war in the early 1810s.
Impi may refer to:
- An impi is a Zulu regiment.
- Impi Linux, a Linux distribution
- Impi (song), South African song by the band Juluka which has become an unofficial national anthem at high profile sports events.
- IP Multimedia Private Identity (IMPI)
- Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
- International Microwave Power Institute
Usage examples of "impi".
When it was over, the survivors of Chaka's shattered impi came to Mzilikazi and, on their knees, swore allegiance to him, to Mzilikazi who was no longer a renegade, but a little king.
Kamusa told how the little king marched north with his swollen impi, and how he defeated other little kings and became a great king.
Each of them was fifty miles from its neighbours, a day's travel at the rate of a marching impi, the ground-devouring trot that they could maintain for hour after hour.
He told them how Mzilikazi, great with plunder, fat with cattle, had come back to Thabas Indunas, arriving suddenly with the blood barely dried on the spears of his impi, and red rage in his art.
No impi would guard that desolate untravelled quarter, and the Tati river was the border between Matabeleland and Khama's country.
We will find no impi here, and once we come out on the far side, we will be beyond the farthest regimental kraals.
The king had once again chosen Bazo for a special task and Bazo's heart was big with pride as he led the vanguard of his impi along the secret road that took them deeper and deeper into the dreaming Hills of the Matopos.
He had been uneasy ever since that chance encounter with the Matabele impi in the hills.
Bazo's impi came sweeping down out of the western forests, silent as shadows and murderous as wild hunting dogs.
Bazo's impi was streaming away into the forest, carrying their wounded with them, and slowly the rifle fire stuttered and faded, and the horses quietened.
Manonda was the commander of the elite Insukamini impi, and though there was silver on his head, there was still fire in his heart.
Singing, Bazo strode down the squatting lines of his impi, and they sang with him.
Mationda, the commander of what had once been the glorious Insukamini impi, hung by his neck from one of the main branches.
Gandang alone had been able to resist the madness of hurling his men over open ground at the waiting Maxim guns, and now he waited for his king's orders in the hills just north of the royal kraal with his impi gathered about him.
The priest had seen the Inyati impi under its old and crafty commander, Gandang, escorting the wagons away from Gubulawayo.