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English
Etymology
Uncertain. Probably from Xhosa amaMbo or Zulu amaMbo affixed with the Afrikaans -ie diminutive; compare Tambookie. Alternatively a Khoekhoe term.[1] First attested in 1786.
Noun
Mambookie (plural Mambookies or Mambookie) (South Africa, obsolete)
- Synonym of Mpondo (“a Bantu people group indigenous to South Africa or a member of it”).
1786, Anders Sparrman, translated by Georg Foster, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 2 edition, volume 2, page 147:Adjoining this nation, towards the north, there is, according to them, a still more warlike and intrepid people, whom they call Mambukis.
1836, Robert Godlonton, Introductory Remarks to a Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes Into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, A.D. 1834-35, Meurant and Godlonton, page 211:s, for instance, at the present day we find the Amakosa and Amatembu branches perfectly distinct from that of the Mambookie.
1851, Robert Gordon Latham, editor, The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies, →ISBN, page 76:Between the Amatembu and Port Natal lie the Amaponda, or Mambuki (Mambookies) […]
Adjective
Mambookie (not comparable) (South Africa, obsolete)
- Synonym of Mpondo (“of or relating to the people group”).
1827, George Thompson, chapter 18, in Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa, volume 2, Henry Colburn, page 203:The reader, by referring to the map, will perceive that the great range of mountains […] is continued through what is called the Mambookie country, and that of the tribes beyond, as far as the vicinity of Delagoa bay.
1834, Thomas Smith, John Overton Choules, The Origin and History of Missions, page 166:He is not a Caffe, but a Mambookie chief, residing about one hundred and twenty miles from Butterworth, in a direct line towards Port Natal.
References
- ^ Anders Sparrman (1786) Georg Foster, transl., A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 2 edition, volume 2, page 147