Zimbabwean

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person from Zimbabwe or of Zimbabwean descent.
    — We were, practically to a person, young Zimbabweans who had no parental backing but who had acquired the means through some sort of tenacity, however dubious, to lodge at the respectable hostel.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people.
    — ‘Oh Dick! You’re a poet, although you don’t know it!’ Belinda, with that annoying Zimbabwean habit of repeating clichés as though they were a novel observation, made her way towards Dick bearing a gin and tonic.

词形变化

Zimbabweans plural more Zimbabwean comparative most Zimbabwean superlative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mbá
Shona imbá
Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è
Shona ibwe
Shona dzimba-dze-mabweder.
English Zimbabwe
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Zimbabwean
From Zimbabwe + -an.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mbá
Shona imbá
Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è
Shona ibwe
Shona dzimba-dze-mabweder.
English Zimbabwe
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Zimbabwean
From Zimbabwe + -an.
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