Limpopo

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). The province was named after the river.

Proper noun

Limpopo

1. (with the) A river in Africa that rises near Johannesburg and flows about 1,770 km (1,100 miles) to the Indian Ocean in Mozambique.
   • 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:

     Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.

2. A province of South Africa which was originally part of Transvaal.

Translations

river in Africa

• Afrikaans: Limpopo (af), Limpoporivier
• Albanian: Limpópo
• Armenian: Լիմպոպո (hy) (Limpopo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 林波波河 (Línbōbōhé)

• Italian: Limpopo m
• Russian: Лимпопо́ (ru) f (Limpopó)
• Venda: Vhembe

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Limpopo

1. A province of South Africa

Italian

Proper noun

Limpopo m

1. Limpopo

Anagrams

• impolpo, impolpò