Umbogintwini
Template:Infobox South African town 2011 Umbogintwini (a corruption of eZimbokodweni)[1] is a town near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Its post office received the corrected name in 1997.
Holiday resort on the Indian Ocean, 23 km south-west of Durban and 4 km north-east of Amanzimtoti. The name is an adaptation of Zulu Mbokodweni, ‘river of round grinding-stones’; the resort is named after the river which enters the sea there.[2]
eZimbokodweni means "site where small, round grinding stones are collected".[1]
References
- ^ a b Jenkins, Elwyn (2007), Falling into place: the story of modern South African place names, David Philip Publishers, p. 76
- ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 444.
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