Zimbabwean

English

Etymology

From Zimbabwe +‎ -an.

Noun

Zimbabwean (plural Zimbabweans)

1. A person from Zimbabwe or of Zimbabwean descent.
   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 269:

     We were, practically to a person, young Zimbabweans who had no parental backing but who had acquired the means through some sort of tenacity, however dubious, to lodge at the respectable hostel.

Hypernyms

• sub-Saharan, African

Translations

a person from Zimbabwe or of Zimbabwean descent

• Afrikaans: Zimbabwiër
• Catalan: zimbabuès (ca) m
• Czech: Zimbabwan (cs) m
• Danish: zimbabwer c
• Esperanto: zimbabvano (man or woman), zimbabvanino (woman)
• Finnish: zimbabwelainen (fi)
• French: Zimbabwéen (fr) m, Zimbabwéenne (fr) f
• German: Simbabwer (de) m, Simbabwerin (de) f
• Irish: Siombábach m
• Italian: zimbabwese m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: zimbabwer m

  Nynorsk: zimbabwar (nn) m

• Portuguese: zimbabweano m, zimbabueano (pt) m, zimbabuense (pt) m or f
• Romanian: zimbabwian m, zimbabwiană f
• Russian: жи́тель Зимба́бве m (žítelʹ Zimbábvɛ), жи́тельница Зимба́бве f (žítelʹnica Zimbábvɛ), зимбабви́ец (ru) m (zimbabvíjec), зимбабви́йка (ru) (zimbabvíjka)
• Spanish: zimbabuense (es)
• Swahili: Mzimbabwe (sw)
• Swedish: zimbabwier (sv) (male), zimbabwiska (sv) (female)
• Turkish: Zimbabveli
• Volapük: Zimbabiyänan

Adjective

Zimbabwean (comparative more Zimbabwean, superlative most Zimbabwean)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people.
   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 288:

     ‘Oh Dick! You’re a poet, although you don’t know it!’ Belinda, with that annoying Zimbabwean habit of repeating clichés as though they were a novel observation, made her way towards Dick bearing a gin and tonic.

Translations

Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people

• Afrikaans: Zimbabwies
• Catalan: zimbabuès (ca)
• Czech: zimbabwský (cs)
• Finnish: zimbabwelainen (fi)
• French: zimbabwéen (fr)
• German: simbabwisch (de)
• Irish: Siombábach
• Italian: zimbabwese m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: zimbabwisk

  Nynorsk: zimbabwisk (nn)

• Polish: zimbabwejski (pl), zimbabweński (pl)
• Portuguese: zimbabweano, zimbabueano (pt), zimbabuense (pt)
• Romanian: zimbabwian
• Russian: зимбабви́йский (ru) (zimbabvíjskij)
• Spanish: zimbabuense (es)
• Swahili: Kizimbabwe
• Swedish: zimbabwisk (sv)
• Ukrainian: зімбабві́йський (zimbabvíjsʹkyj)