Noun: ubuntu
Sample Sentences
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Through Ubuntu the worth of all individuals are recognized and respected. As such, homophobia is an unAfrican^([sic]) because it denies people the opportunity to express their full humanity. [2006 October 26, “South Africa: LGBT Groups Respond To CONTRALESA’s Stance On Same Sex Marriage”, in OutRight Action International, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2015:]
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This includes buen vivir (or sumak kawsay or suma qamaña), a culture of life with different names and varieties emerging from indigenous peoples in various regions of South America; ubuntu, with its emphasis on human mutuality (“I am because we are”) in South Africa; radical ecological democracy or ecological swaraj, with a focus on self-reliance and self-governance, in India; and degrowth, the hypothesis that we can live better with less and in common, in western countries. [2015 July 21, “Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism”, in The Guardian:]
Nouns inflected like ubuntu
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀ntʊ̀
3. Zulu ubúntubor.
4. ▲
5. Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀ntʊ̀
6. Xhosa úbúntubor.
7. English ubuntu
8. Loanword from Zulu ubuntu (“humanity”) and Xhosa ubuntu (“humaneness, solidarity”). See: Zulu Nouns '
ubuntu'.