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Zu·lu

(zo͞o′lo͞o)
n. pl. Zulu or Zu·lus
1. A member of a Bantu people of southeast Africa, primarily inhabiting northeast Natal province in South Africa.
2. The Nguni language of this people, closely related to Xhosa.

Zu′lu adj.
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Some years since--it was during the winter before the Zulu War--a White Man was travelling through Natal.
Then a Zulu spoke, who hitherto had remained silent.
Yet I will do it, though it is against your law, and you do wrong to ask me,--yes, to show you that there is truth in us Zulu doctors, I will help you.
I say all, my father, except three only--the big black Africander ox, the little red Zulu ox with one horn, and the speckled ox.
Neither has it been possible for the writer of it to render the full force of the Zulu idiom nor to convey a picture of the teller.
Why have you used all this Chinese and Choctaw and Zulu rubbish?"
'learning' remain in your report; you have as much right, I suppose, to 'adorn your page' with Zulu and Chinese and Choctaw rubbish as others of your sort have to adorn theirs with insolent odds and ends smouched from half a dozen learned tongues whose A-B ABS they don't even know."
Again, if I had given way to my own impulses, I should have wished to go into the differences, some of which are to my mind very suggestive, between the Zulu and Kukuana dialects.
THE Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined the King and Queen of the Zulus at the UK's biggest agricultural show to mark the 140th anniversary of the Anglo Zulu War.
THE Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined the King and Queen of the Zulus yesterday to mark the 140th anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War.
The movie, released on January 22, 1964, opened by showing the viewer that the rest of the British force had been defeated and wiped out, and the Zulus were making their way towards Rorke's Drift in a full-scale invasion.
Writing on 3 July 1926, Baines' immediate predecessor, Baynes, noted that "in Natal the natives are eight or ten times as numerous as the whites." In his view, it was this disproportion in numbers that made the "Native question," the relationship between the English settler community and the Zulus, more acute than in the Cape.

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