sb. and a. Also Zoola, Zooloo. [Native name.]
1. (Also Z.-Kaffir.) a. sb. A member of a warlike South African race of blacks belonging to the Bantu family, of a type resembling the Kaffir, and inhabiting Natal. b. adj. Belonging to this race.
1824. in Christopher, Natal (1850), 21. Chaka, king of the Zulus, to whom belongs the whole of the country from Natal to Dela Goa Bay. Ibid. (1828), 23. The country of the Zoolas eastward of Natal. Ibid., 25. The interior productions of the Zoola country.
1863. W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, ii. 40. A buffalo, which some Zulu Kaffirs had killed. Ibid., iii. 75. They much resemble the Zulu huts, but have larger doorways.
1895. A. H. Keane, Africa, II. vi. 241. Tribal groups belonging either to the Bechuana, or to the Zulu-Kafir division of the Southern Bantus.
2. (sb. or adj.) Applied to the language spoken by the Zulus.
1850. Christopher, Natal, 137. The Zulu alphabet.
1857. Döhne, Zulu-Kafir Dict., Introd. p. xxxviii. The Zulu, as the high language, has ever exercised a controlling influence upon the low languages.
1861. Colenso, Zulu-Engl. Dict., p. v. The Zulu for dog is commonly spelt inja.
1869. Bleek, in Cape & its People (ed. R. Noble), 272. The Zulu noun a-ba-ntu ‘men, people.’
1900. Speaker, 24 Feb., 551/2. What we want is competent officials, with knowledge of Zulu and a desire … to understand the people and their wants.
3. Name of an artificial fly used in angling.
1898. Speaker, 29 Oct., 515/2. General utility flies…. Such are the red tag, the Zulu, the blue dun, the snipewing, the moorhen bloa.
1901. Field, 9 Nov., 739. I put up a fine cast with three biggish flies tied on fine gut (a March brown, a Zulu, and a black palmer).
Hence Zulu v., intr. (with it) to act like a Zulu; Zuludom, the domain of the Zulus; Zuluize v., trans. to make into a Zulu.
1876. Jrnl. Soc. Arts, 28 Jan., 166/2. Into the heart of savage Zuludom.
1882. Phil Robinson, Noah’s Ark, i. The lion, again, they say, is King in Africa, yet the gorilla Zulus it over the forests within the lion’s territory.
1895. Pall Mall Gaz., 6 Aug., 7/1. Death of John Dunn. A Zuluized Englishman.
