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damaraland

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables
dama-r-a-land
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The north-central part of a region that later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras, bounded roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and Windhoek in the south.

name

A bantustan in South-West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government of the 1970s as a self-governing homeland for the Damara people.

Etymology

From Damara + -land.

Word Breakdown

Phrases

Damaraland blesmol Damaraland mole-rat Damaraland zebra

Questions

What does damaraland mean?
The north-central part of a region that later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras, bounded roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and Windhoek in the south.
Where does damaraland come from?
From Damara + -land.

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