Meanings
nounAmatembu pl (plural only)
- pluralplural onlySynonym of Thembu.
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 761 more example
[A]s, for instance, at the present day we find the Amakosa and Amatembu branches perfectly distinct from that of the Mambookie.
1836, Robert Godlonton, Introductory Remarks to a Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes Into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, A.D. 1834-35, Meurant and Godlonton, page 211Synonyms: Thembu
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Thembu.
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