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Zanghibar

Zanghibar is the obsolete form of Zanzibar.

Meaning of Zanzibar

Proper noun

Zanzibar

  1. An island region of Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.
    • Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2019
  2. (historical) A former sultanate in East Africa in the Indian Ocean, which merged with Tanganyika in 1963 to form Tanzania.

Questions about Zanghibar

What is Zanghibar the obsolete form of?
Zanghibar is the obsolete form of Zanzibar.

Words near Zanghibar in the dictionary

  1. zangees
  2. Zanger
  3. Zangers
  4. Zangguy
  5. Zanghi
  6. Zanghibar
  7. Zanghis
  8. Zangi
  9. Zangid
  10. Zangids
  11. Zangis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Zanghibar (page history and authors); Zanzibar (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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