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uThixo is a Xhosa word that means "God" or "The Almighty" in English. It is often used as a reference to the divine being in the context of the Christian faith in Xhosa-speaking communities in South Africa. The term is often used to refer to the supreme deity in Christian theology.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...
The longest single palindromic word in English is rotavator, another name for a rotary tiller for breaking and aerating soil. Typed words The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard are tesseradecades , aftercataracts , dereverberated , dereverberates [ 33 ] and the more common but ...
From technical to whimsical, prepare for your vocabulary to be stretched with 20 of the longest words in English. Plus, find out what they mean. Related: 55 Examples of Onomatopoeia
Xhosa (/ ˈ k ɔː s ə / KAW-sə or / ˈ k oʊ s ə / ⓘ KOH-sə, [5] [6] [7] Xhosa: [ᵏǁʰôːsa] ⓘ), formerly spelled Xosa and also known by its local name isiXhosa, is a Bantu language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. [8]
The 45-letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word that appears in a major dictionary. [38] [39] Originally coined to become a candidate for the longest word in English, the term eventually developed some independent use in medicine. [40] It is referred to as "P45" by researchers. [41]
kwedini - a popular word meaning a boy in Xhosa and Zulu; laduma! – a popular cheer at soccer matches, "he scores!" (literally: "it thunders", in Nguni) nca – meaning something is nice or tasty (the nc is a nasalised dental click) Vati – water, kasi word for water,also the name of a water purification company from standerton Sakhile
The word Induna is regularly used as a name to indicate something large (the big one) or important: Ntabazinduna (Mountain of the Chiefs) is the name of a hill north of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. [ 8 ] The name stems from the practice of throwing izinDuna who ran afoul of the king down it.