Zimbabwe

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专有名词
  1. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Zimbabwe. Formerly called Southern Rhodesia or Rhodesia.
    — According to Ncube, the MDC believed, from 2000, that Britain's interest in Zimbabwe had more to do with concern for white farmers than black Zimbabweans.

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Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mbá
Shona imbá
Proto-Bantu *ìbʊ̀è
Shona ibwe
Shona dzimba-dze-mabweder.
English Zimbabwe
From Shona dzimba-dze-mabwe (“houses of stones”) (see imba (“house”), ibwe (“stone”)), in reference to Great Zimbabwe.
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