Mambuki

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A form of Mambookie — Synonym of Mpondo (“a Bantu people group indigenous to South Africa or a member of it”).

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Meanings

nounMambuki (plural Mambukis or Mambuki)

plural Mambukis

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Mambookie.

    Between the Amatembu and Port Natal lie the Amaponda, or Mambuki (Mambookies)[…]

    1851, Robert Gordon Latham, editor, The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies, →ISBN, page 76
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    Adjoining this nation, towards the north, there is, according to them, a still more warlike and intrepid people, whom they call Mambukis.

    1786, Anders Sparrman, translated by Georg Foster, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 2 edition, volume 2, page 147
adjectiveMambuki (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Mambookie.
Cite this entry
APA

Mambuki. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mambuki

MLA

“Mambuki.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mambuki. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mambuki,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mambuki.

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