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Mambuki

Mambuki 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 Mambuki

pluralMambukis
pluralMambuki

Questions about Mambuki

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

Words near Mambuki in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mambuki (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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