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Zulu

nounproper nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈzuːluː//

A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.

noun

  1. 1

    A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.

  2. 2

    datedAny black person.

  3. 3

    Time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time.

    Noon MST is 19:00 Zulu.

Etymology

Etymology tree Zulu umu- Proto-Bantu *ʊ́- Zulu ú- Proto-Bantu *ìgʊ̀dʊ̀ Zulu ī́zulu Zulu úZulu Zulu uḿZuluder. English Zulu Derived from Zulu uḿZulu.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu.

    If he puts in a Zulu word, that means there are Zulu people in the Belt.

    The resulting Belter creole is a crazy mix of English, Chinese, romance languages like French, German, Persian, Hebrew, Zulu, and a few other surprises. Farmer says he has over 1,000 Belter words in his personal dictionary, and he keeps adding more as the show’s producers and fans request them.

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.

    If he puts in a Zulu word, that means there are Zulu people in the Belt.

Forms

plural
Zulus
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).