Word origins

• maliA Somali.
• mamaSynonym of mother (“a female parent”).
• MandelaTo experience the Mandela effect.
• XhosaA member of a Bantu people from South Africa, most of whom live in the Eastern Cape.
• MzansiSouth Africa
• abakwethaA young Xhosa man undergoing the ritual initiation into manhood.
• amagogotyaThose who refused to take part in the Xhosa cattle-killing and crop-destroying movement of 1856–1857, in what is now Eastern Cape, South Africa.
• AmakosaA member of the Xhosa people.
• amakwetaAn abakwetha.
• amapakatiThe council or inner circle of advisers of a chief in a Nguni society.
• AmaxosaThe Xhosa people.
• AmaxosasThe Xhosa people.
• BhishoA city, the capital of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
• daba grassMiscanthus capensis, a long African grass used as thatch.
• iBhayiA township in Gqeberha, South Africa.
• igqirhaA Xhosa witch doctor.
• inkciyoA beaded apron worn by the Xhosa people.
• kwediniA young boy, especially a Xhosa.
• lobolaThe bride price among certain Bantu peoples of South Africa.
• MambookieSynonym of Mpondo (“a Bantu people group indigenous to South Africa or a member of it”).
• pagatiAn adviser to a tribal chief and/or a member of a tribal council in a traditional Nguni society.
• ubuthiwitchcraft (among the Xhosa people)
• ukuthwasaA culture-bound syndrome among the Xhosa people, with pain and vivid dreams, interpreted as a sign that the sufferer should become a sangoma.
• umngqushoA Bantu dish of maize and vegetables.