Hereron.
/hɛˈrɛːrəʊ/, /həˈrɛːrəʊ/, /həˈrɪərəʊ/, U.S. /həˈrɛroʊ/ A member of a black African people of Namibia (formerly called South-West Africa); the Bantu language spoken by these people, called Otshi-Herero by the Herero themselves.The Herero are also known as Cattle Damara.
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1862 W. H. I. Bleek Compar. Gram. S. Afr. Langs.: Pt. I i. 8 The language of Benguela..is quite distinct..from the Herero species.
1862 W. H. I. Bleek Compar. Gram. S. Afr. Langs.: Pt. I ii. 22 Kongo bhobha (to speak, talk) is Hereró pópa (to warn, persuade).
1868 F. W. Kolbe (title) A brief statement of the discovery of the laws of the vowels in Herero.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 731/2 Hereroland..so called from the native race known to the Namaqua as Herero and to the Cape colonists as Damara.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. 2/2 The Kaffirs are joining the Hereros in attacking the Germans.
1952 L. G. Green Lords of Last Frontier (1953) ii. 18 Midway in the sixteenth century those forceful Bantu, the Hereros, reached the end of a long migration, and settled in the cattle country.
1952 L. G. Green Lords of Last Frontier (1953) xv. 148 Hereros are tall people, especially the men... Features are almost European, with well-shaped noses, high foreheads and oval faces.
1961 L. van der Post Heart of Hunter i. iii. 64 The black man, the Herero, the Bastaards, had kraals and lands of their own.
1972 Cape Times 10 Mar. 1/1 Mr. John Garvey Muundjua, a Herero who is the South West Africa National Union's ‘Secretary for External Affairs’.
1973 Times 8 Mar. 6/2 Herero tribal leaders have rejected an invitation from the Government to appoint representatives to sit on the advisory council.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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