Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river, about 435 km (270 mi) long, of southeast Poland flowing generally north-northwest from the Carpathian Mountains to the Vistula River.
  • noun A member of a traditionally nomadic hunting people of southwest Africa.
  • noun Any of the Khoisan languages of the San.

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  • proper noun A river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
  • proper noun A member of the ethnically distinct, short-statured nomadic people of southern Africa.
  • proper noun Any of a dozen related Khoisan languages spoken by the San.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Nama : sáà, to pick up from the ground, gather + -n, common gender pl. suff.]

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