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In the Kongo language, Abada refers to a mythical animal similar to a unicorn. The Abada, however, has two crooked horns as opposed to a unicorn's single one. The Abada's horns can act as an antidote to poison and disease. It has been described as being the size of a small donkey with the tail of a boar. It also appears to those that are lost.
This is a list of unicorn startup companies: In finance, a unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more. Notable lists of unicorn companies are maintained by The Wall Street Journal , [ 1 ] Fortune Magazine , [ 2 ] CNNMoney / CB Insights , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] TechCrunch , [ 5 ] PitchBook/Morningstar, [ 6 ...
A decade after Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn,” she knows that the term has taken on a life of its own—and is imperfect. “It’s an ephemeral word, it’s a point in time,” she told me.
An equine form of the unicorn was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, [2] and Cosmas Indicopleustes. [3] The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some translations render as unicorn. [2] The unicorn continues to hold a place in ...
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The disposal of Unicorn, expected to be completed by the end of this month, would allow Clicks to obtain new pharmacy licences. South African pharmacy chain Clicks to sell drug maker after court ...
tilapia – possibly a Latinization of "tlhapi", the Tswana word for "fish" [14] tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana tsetse, Luhya tsiisi) ubuntu – Nguni term for "mankind, humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, Ubuntu, as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism" uhuru – from ...
The name karkadann is a variation of the Kurdish name which means donkey with one horn [Kar kit Dan]. Persian kargadan , or Sanskrit kartajan , which is said to mean "lord of the desert". [ 10 ] Fritz Hommel suspects that the word entered Semitic languages via Arabs from Abyssinia . [ 11 ]