Zulu

See also zulu, zulú, and zulù

Translingual

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈzuːluː]

Symbol

Zulu

1. The letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Zulu umZulu.

Pronunciation

• enPR: zo͞o'lo͞o, IPA: /ˈzuːluː/, X-SAMPA: /"zu:lu:/

Adjective

Zulu (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.

Translations

pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language

• Catalan: zulu (ca)
• Dutch: Zoeloe (nl)
• Faroese: sulu (fo) n
• Galician: zulú (gl)
• Greek: Ζουλού (el) (Zouloú)
• Italian: zulù (it)
• Polish: Zulus (pl)

• Portuguese: zulu (pt)
• Russian: зулусский (ru) (zulússkij)
• Spanish: zulú (es)
• Swahili: Kizulu (sw)
• Turkish: Zuluca (tr)

Noun

Zulu (plural Zulus)

1. An individual member of the Zulu people.
2. The letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet
3. A designation for time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time.
   • Noon MST is 19:00 Zulu.

Translations

member of the Zulu people

• Catalan: zulu (ca)
• Dutch: Zoeloe (nl) m
• Finnish: zulu (fi)
• French: Zoulou (fr) m, Zouloue (fr) f
• Galician: zulú (gl)
• Greek: Ζουλού (el) (Zouloú)

• Italian: zulù (it) m and f
• Manx: Sooloo (gv) m
• Portuguese: zulu (pt)
• Russian: зулус (ru) (zulús) m
• Swahili: Mzulu (sw)
• Zulu: umZulu (zu) 1/6

the letter "Z" in ICAO spelling alphabet

• Estonian: Zürich (et)

• Finnish: tseta (fi)

Zulu time

• Finnish: UTC (fi)

Proper noun

Zulu

1. An African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.
2. The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu.

Synonyms

• (language): isiZulu

Translations

African ethnic group

• Catalan: zulu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祖魯族人 (cmn), 祖鲁族人 (cmn) (Zǔlǔ zúrén)

• Dutch: Zoeloes (nl) pl
• Finnish: zulut (fi) pl

• Galician: zulú (gl)
• German: Zulu (de)
• Italian: zulù (it) m and f
• Portuguese: zulu (pt)
• Zulu: amaZulu (zu) 6

language

• Catalan: zulu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 祖魯語 (cmn), 祖鲁语 (cmn) (Zǔlǔyǔ)

• Dutch: Zoeloe (nl) n
• Faroese: sulu (fo) n
• Finnish: zulu (fi)
• French: zoulou (fr) m
• Galician: zulú (gl)
• German: Zulu (de), Bantu (de)

• Italian: zulù (it) m
• Japanese: ズールー語 (ja) (Zūrū-go)
• Navajo: Zulu Dineʼé bizaad
• Polish: zulu (pl) n
• Portuguese: zulu (pt)
• Russian: зулу (ru) (zúlu) m (indeclinable), зулусский (ru) (zulússkij) m
• Swahili: Kizulu (sw)
• Zulu: isiZulu (zu) 7

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Translations to be checked

• Gujarati: ઝૂલૂ
• Hindi: ज़ूलू

• Interlingua: Zulu (ia)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Zulu terms
• Appendix:Zulu Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Zulu
• ISO 639-1 code zu, ISO 639-3 code zul
• Ethnologue entry for Zulu, zu

External links

• isiZulu.net Zulu - English online dictionary
• Zulu - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.