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語源

From Zulu impi.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɪmpi/

名詞

impi (plural impis)

1. A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men.
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 212:

     And in the end he, as well as three of his four children, shared Retief's fate in the massacre of Trekkers by the Zulu impis of Dingane.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 26:

     But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe.

アナグラム

• MIPI