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Nguni

/(ə)ŋˈɡuːni/

Nguni noun: the group of Southern African peoples comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Mpondo and Ndebele nations.

Noun

Nguni pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The group of Southern African peoples comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Mpondo and Ndebele nations.

Proper noun

Nguni

  1. The group of languages of the Nguni people.

Nguni meaning in Bengali

Nguni in Bengali

খোসা, সোয়াজি

Origin of Nguni

From Zulu noun stem as in umNguni (“member of Nguni people”), isiNguni (“Nguni language group”).

Words formed from Nguni

  • small hardy cattle endemic to Southern Africa

Questions about Nguni

What does Nguni mean?
Nguni means the group of Southern African peoples comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Mpondo and Ndebele nations.
What is Nguni in Bengali?
Nguni in Bengali is খোসা, সোয়াজি. See Nguni meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Nguni?
Nguni can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Nguni?
Nguni is pronounced /(ə)ŋˈɡuːni/.

Words near Nguni in the dictionary

  1. ngulu
  2. Ngulungbara
  3. Ngumbin
  4. Ngumpin
  5. Ngunawal
  6. Nguni
  7. Ngunnawal
  8. ngurungaeta
  9. ngurungaetas
  10. Ngus
  11. Nguy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Nguni (page history and authors); Nguni (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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