The story
- Tswana · borrowed frommotlopi
- English todaymotlopi
Borrowed from Tswana motlopi. The word is cognate with Afrikaans matoppie, Northern Sotho mohlopi, Sotho mohlopi, Venda muṱhobi.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
motlopi
mo·tlo·piToday it means: The shepherd tree or shepherd's tree (Boscia albitrunca), an evergreen tree native to southern and tropical Africa which is one of the most important forage trees of the Kalahari. Full definition →
Tswana motlopi