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Word Origin for dumela Sotho Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Examples from the Web for dumela Historical Examples of dumela
Dumela glanced at me impatiently, eke somewhat contemptuously.
Bertram Mitford
You are a Tembu, Dumela; how then can you bring me a man of another tribe, and vouch for him as good?
Bertram Mitford
Here we came up with Dumela, who had started on ahead, and had made the distance in most excellent time.
Bertram Mitford
Dumela came upon the fresh spoor as he was out looking after that sick cow down in the kloof by Aasvogel Krautz.
Bertram Mitford
Giving no further thought to old Dumela, we fared forth over the moonlit veldt.
Bertram Mitford
