Zimbabwen.

Brit.

/zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/,

/zɪmˈbabweɪ/,

/zɪmˈbɑːbwi/,

/zɪmˈbabwi/, U.S.

/zɪmˈbɑbˌweɪ/,

/zɪmˈbɑbwi/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Zimbabwe.

Etymology: < Zimbabwe (now usually Great Zimbabwe), the name of a ruined city in Southern Africa; subsequently (within English) applied to similar archaeological monuments.Great Zimbabwe is located in the Masvingo province of the Republic of Zimbabwe; in the 13th-15th cent. it was the capital of a kingdom now referred to as the Kingdom of Zimbabwe. The English name reflects a Shona place name of uncertain origin, but apparently < a phrase beginning with dzimba houses or zimba big house (both grammatical forms of imba house), perhaps dzimba dza-mabwe , lit. ‘houses of stones’ or zimba ra-mabwe , lit. ‘big house of stones’. In European contexts the place name first appears in Portuguese (first half of the 16th cent. as Symbaoe ); it is attested in English from at least the 17th cent. (1615 as Simbaoe , or earlier). The Republic of Zimbabwe is named after the city (see Zimbabwean n.).

Any of the numerous ruined stone-walled settlements scattered across Zimbabwe and neighbouring countries and dating from medieval times.

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pond-barrow1845

Zimbabwe1891

ploshchadka1913

stone ring1924

woodhenge1927

henge1932

1891 Mr. Bent's Explor. in Mashonaland 15 Dec. in Times 14 Jan. (1892) 8/1 For centuries this circular building formed ‘the Zimbabwe’ or Royal kraal of those Kaffir Emperors, the Monomatapa.., which was once very powerful, but which was afterwards split..into many parts, each governed by separate chiefs with their own Zimbabwe or Royal kraal, so that the name is now oft recurring in Mashonaland.

1963 R. Summers in E. Bacon Vanished Civilisations iii. 36/2 Other ‘Zimbabwes’—over 200 of them..—lie scattered all over Southern Rhodesia.

2004 M. Given Archaeol. of Colonized ix. 164 British archaeologists and colonizers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries claimed that the monumental medieval stone zimbabwes were ‘Phoenician’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	zimbabwe
释义	Zimbabwen. Brit. /zɪmˈbɑːbweɪ/, /zɪmˈbabweɪ/, /zɪmˈbɑːbwi/, /zɪmˈbabwi/, U.S. /zɪmˈbɑbˌweɪ/, /zɪmˈbɑbwi/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Zimbabwe. Etymology: < Zimbabwe (now usually Great Zimbabwe), the name of a ruined city in Southern Africa; subsequently (within English) applied to similar archaeological monuments.Great Zimbabwe is located in the Masvingo province of the Republic of Zimbabwe; in the 13th-15th cent. it was the capital of a kingdom now referred to as the Kingdom of Zimbabwe. The English name reflects a Shona place name of uncertain origin, but apparently < a phrase beginning with dzimba houses or zimba big house (both grammatical forms of imba house), perhaps dzimba dza-mabwe , lit. ‘houses of stones’ or zimba ra-mabwe , lit. ‘big house of stones’. In European contexts the place name first appears in Portuguese (first half of the 16th cent. as Symbaoe ); it is attested in English from at least the 17th cent. (1615 as Simbaoe , or earlier). The Republic of Zimbabwe is named after the city (see Zimbabwean n.). Any of the numerous ruined stone-walled settlements scattered across Zimbabwe and neighbouring countries and dating from medieval times. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > built structures pond-barrow1845 Zimbabwe1891 ploshchadka1913 stone ring1924 woodhenge1927 henge1932 1891 Mr. Bent's Explor. in Mashonaland 15 Dec. in Times 14 Jan. (1892) 8/1 For centuries this circular building formed ‘the Zimbabwe’ or Royal kraal of those Kaffir Emperors, the Monomatapa.., which was once very powerful, but which was afterwards split..into many parts, each governed by separate chiefs with their own Zimbabwe or Royal kraal, so that the name is now oft recurring in Mashonaland. 1963 R. Summers in E. Bacon Vanished Civilisations iii. 36/2 Other ‘Zimbabwes’—over 200 of them..—lie scattered all over Southern Rhodesia. 2004 M. Given Archaeol. of Colonized ix. 164 British archaeologists and colonizers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries claimed that the monumental medieval stone zimbabwes were ‘Phoenician’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1891
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