Luban.adj.
/ˈluːbə/ A. n.
1. A member of a people inhabiting areas in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, chiefly the Shaba province.
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1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxiii. 458 Neither guns nor native traders are admitted into the country, the chief of Luba entertaining a dread of innovation.]
1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 280 Mittu..is the name of a tribe whose language is spoken by a small group of independent tribes, Mittu, Madi, Abukeya, and Luba.
1919 H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. ii. 25 Good-looking ‘negroid’ types may be encountered among the Zulus, the Becuana, the Hererѡ, the Alunda, Baluba, Manyuema, [etc.].
1919 H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. ii. 25 Bantu languages are spoken by..the Assyrian-like Baluba and Busoñgw [etc.].
1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food i. 10 The Baloubas of Zaïre use the bark of trees for cooking au plat.
2. Either of the two languages (distinguished as Tshiluba and Kiluba) spoken by sections of this population.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo > [noun]
Kongo1600
Bakongo1877
Kioko1884
Mongo1906
Lugbara1908
Luba1997
1997 E. Isichei Hist. Afr. Societies to 1870 Notes 547 Reefe states that the Kazembe's court spoke Luba, acquired in an earlier sojourn in a Luba-speaking area.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Luba or their languages.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages
Kaffir1588
Kongo1597
Xhosa1812
Amapondo1830
Zulu1839
Sesotho1844
Swahilian1846
Kikuyu1850
Bantu1858
Fan1861
Amandebele1872
Nyamwezi1872
Wagogo1878
Lunda1879
Luganda1882
Sotho1883
Gogo1891
Tonga1891
Chichewa1897
Ronga1897
Bemba1904
Ila1907
Tsonga1907
Meru1908
Chewa1909
Venda1913
Lingala1922
Luba1922
Pedi1922
Nyanja1923
Nguni1929
Ndebele1930
Lobedu1937
Tiv1939
Mongo1961
Siswati1964
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo > [adjective]
Kongo1597
Bakongo1840
Lugbara1907
Luba1957
1922 H. H. Johnston Compar. Stud. Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. II. v. 109 The Luba-Lunda languages..must be regarded as associated with an ancient culture and a remarkable endemic civilization produced in South Central Congoland.
1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society i. 5 Verhulpen mentions how the razzias of the Lunda and Luba states swept the Central African area for slaves.
1972 E. A. Nida Bk. 1000 Tongues 400/1 KiSonge is a Luba language, spoken by about half a million people..in southeastern Congo-Kinshasa... The people are sometimes known as the Western Kalebwe BaLuba. Their Bantu language is related to the other Luba tongues.
1984 Times 10 Apr. 2/5 A Luba wood arrow rest in the form of a female figure.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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