zandehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zande_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZande, n.
First published 1986; not fully revised

Zandenoun

  1. 1.
    1873–
    (A member of) a people of mixed ethnic origin inhabiting central Africa.
    1. 1873
      As marks of nationality, all the ‘Zandey’ score themselves with three or four tattooed squares.
      E. E. Frewer, translation of G. Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa vol. II. xiii. 6
    2. 1884
      The A-Zandey are to be regarded as rather of mixed Negroid than of pure Negro stock.
      Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XVII. 474/1
    3. 1902
      The Zandehs proper..are now found to stretch, with interruptions, from the White Nile above the Sobat confluence to the Shari affluent of Lake Chad.
      Encyclopædia Britannica vol. XXXI. 230/1
    4. 1918
      The true Azande live in the Belgian Congo.
      R. G. C. Brock in Sudan Notes & Records October 249
    5. 1918
      The Azande are divided into different clans and most of these believe that they return to the earth in the form of some animal.
      R. G. C. Brock in Sudan Notes & Records October 253
    6. 1955
      If a Zande murdered a fellow-tribesman with his spear he was tried in court by his chief.
      M. Gluckman, Custom & Conflict in Africa iv. 85
  2. 2.
    1938–
    The language of this people.
    1. 1938
      Zande... Spoken by perhaps 300,000 people in northeastern Belgian Congo, eastern French Equatorial Africa and southern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
      Book Thousand Tongues (Amer. Bible Soc.) 353/2

Zande, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

Zande, n. was last modified in December 2024.