Zimbabwe

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“houses of stones”) (see imba (“house”), ibwe (“stone”)), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• IPA^(key): /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/

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• Hyphenation: Zim‧ba‧bwe

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Zimbabwe

2. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.
   • 2009 June 17, Blessing-Miles Tendi, “Tsvangirai's dicey strategy”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     According to Ncube, the MDC believed, from 2000, that Britain's interest in Zimbabwe had more to do with concern for white farmers than black Zimbabweans.

• Subsahara

• Appendix:Countries of the world

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa; capital: Harare)

• Zimbabwiër
• Zimbabwies

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• IPA^(key): /ziˈᵐbá.ɓʷe/

Zimbábwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived from Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɪmbabvɛ]

Zimbabwe n (indeclinable, relational adjective zimbabwský, demonym Zimbabwan)

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• “Zimbabwe”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• IPA^(key): /ˌzɪmˈbɑp.ʋə/, /ˌzɪmˈbɑ.bʋə/

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• Hyphenation: Zim‧bab‧we

Zimbabwe n

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• Zimbabwaan

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsimbɑbwe/, [ˈts̠imbɑ̝bwe̞]
• Rhymes: -imbɑbwe
• Syllabification^(key): Zim‧bab‧we
• Hyphenation^(key): Zim‧bab‧we

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

   Zimbabwen tasavalta ― Republic of Zimbabwe

• adjectives: zimbabwelainen
• nouns: zimbabwelainen

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈzimbɒbvɛ]
• Hyphenation: Zim‧bab‧we
• Rhymes: -vɛ

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

or somewhat less commonly

• zimbabwei

Derived from Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /zimˈbabwe/ [zimˈbap̚.we]
• Rhymes: -abwe
• Syllabification: Zim‧bab‧we

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• “Zimbabwe”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• IPA^(key): ^*/d͡zimˈba.bwe/, (traditional) ^*/d͡zimˈba.bu.e/^[1]
• Rhymes: -abwe, (traditional) -abue
• Hyphenation: Zim‧bàb‧we

Zimbabwe m

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• zimbabwiano

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• zimbabwer
• zimbabwisk

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• zimbabwar
• zimbabwisk

Orthographic borrowing from English Zimbabwe, from Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

• IPA^(key): /zimˈba.bvɛ/

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• Rhymes: -abvɛ
• Syllabification: Zim‧bab‧we

Zimbabwe n (indeclinable, related adjective zimbabwejski or zimbabweński)

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• “Zimbabwe”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English Zimbabwe, from Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe m

1. alternative form of Zimbabué: Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• IPA^(key): /z̤i.ᵐba.bwe/

Zimbábwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

Derived from Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe n (genitive singular Zimbabwe)

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• “Zimbabwe”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“house of stones”), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe n (genitive Zimbabwes)

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)

• zimbabwier
• zimbabwisk
• zimbabwiska

• “Zimbabwe”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Zimbabwe

1. Zimbabwe (a country in Southern Africa)