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Mandela

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Etymology

Borrowed from Xhosa Mandela.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mandela

  1. A surname from Xhosa, notably borne by Nelson Mandela.
    • 2008 December 30, Libby Brooks, “Let heroes be unsung”, in The Guardian:
      Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Xhosa Mandela.

Proper noun

Mandela

  1. a surname, Mandela

Dutch

Etymology

From Xhosa Mandela.

Proper noun

Mandela

  1. a surname, Mandela

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mandēla f sg (genitive Mandēlae); first declension

  1. a small town in the Sabines, near the Digentia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Derived terms

References

  • Mandela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Mandela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Mandela”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Xhosa

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mandela

  1. a surname, Mandela

Descendants

  • English: Mandela
  • Afrikaans: Mandela
  • Dutch: Mandela

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