Damaraland

English

proper noun
Definitions
  • (historical) The north-central part of what 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.
  • (historical) 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

Compound from English Damara + English land (real estate, urine).

Origin

English

land

Gloss

real estate, urine

Concept
Semantic Field

The body

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

尿

Emoji

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