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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Xhosa

South African Bantu people, 1801, their self-designation. Also of their language.

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Xhosa

Xhosa may refer to:

  • Xhosa people, a group who live in southeastern South Africa
  • Xhosa language, one of the official Bantu languages of South Africa
  • Xhosa Wars, a series of nine wars between the Xhosa people and European settlers that were waged from 1779 to 1879

Usage examples of "xhosa".

The air was thick with tobacco smoke and the cadences of Swahili and Gujarati and Xhosa.

By 1652, the year the Dutch arrived at Cape Town with their winter-rain crops of Near Eastern origin, the Xhosa had still not spread beyond the Fish River.