Thursday, June 29, 2017

-banzi (wide)

-banzi (adj)
wide

ububanzi (n)
width, breadth

Isibonelo:
Olunye uphawu lokhozi wukuthi lunamaphiko abanzi.
Another feature of the eagle is that it has broad wings.

(see a very odd one at the bottom of the post)

In names:

Ubanzi, Lubanzi are given names. What is the significance of this name?



On the Wild Coast, Lubanzi Village, and Backpacker 
which having discovered, I feel much drawn to visit.


Lubanzi wine, named after a dog, Lubanzi, who walked for six days with two American hikers along the Wild Coast.

Canis Africanis, is known in isiZulu/isiXhosa as iBanzi according to this blog.
 

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, a play by Athol Fugard
in which a man, Sizwe Banzi has to give up his name and identity to survive in apartheid times of South Africa
Sizwe - Nation
Banzi - Wide
surely referring to the universality of the character and his experiences.


(So far the only example sentence I've been able to obtain from the isiZulu Oxford Living Dictionary is an example of the weirdness one can encounter there among user-submitted contents.

Lapha sisho abantu abanezidingo ezithile, isibonelo, labo abadinga ukufakelwa iminyango ebanzi ezindlini zabo.
Here we mean people who have certain needs, for example those for whom wider doors need to be installed in their homes.)

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