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Mambucki

Mambucki is the alternative form of Mambookie.

Meaning of Mambookie

Noun

Mambookie (plural Mambookies or Mambookie)

  1. (South Africa, obsolete) Synonym of Mpondo (“a Bantu people group indigenous to South Africa or a member of it”).
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    Mpondo

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Forms of Mambucki

pluralMambuckis
pluralMambucki

Questions about Mambucki

What is Mambucki the alternative form of?
Mambucki is the alternative form of Mambookie.

Words near Mambucki in the dictionary

  1. Mambookies
  2. mambos
  3. Mambourin
  4. mambrino
  5. mambrinos
  6. Mambucki
  7. Mambuckis
  8. Mambuki
  9. Mambukis
  10. Mambulo Nuevo
  11. Mambulo Viejo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mambucki (page history and authors); Mambookie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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