inkosi

plural inkosis · plural amakhosi · alternative inkhosi

1. A chief (particularly Zulu).

   Before leaving his house to go to the kraal the inkosi had to eat a little porridge.

   1956, Margaret Read, The Ngoni of Nyasaland, page 66

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   Muse, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Akhilleus, / deadly rage that brought the Akhaians endless pain, / that hurled down to Hades many strong souls / of heroes and made their bodies meat for dogs / and vultures, fulfilling the plan of Zeus, / ever since that day those two quarreled— / inkosi Agamemnon and godlike Akhilleus.

   2012, Homer, translated by Richard Whitaker, The Iliad: A Southern African Translation