Matabele \Mat`a*be"le\, or Matabeles \Mat`a*be"les\, n. pl., sing. {Matabele}. [Written also {Matabili}.] (Ethnol.) A warlike South African Kaffir tribe. Matabele \Mat`a*be"le\, or Matabeles \Mat`a*be"les\, n. pl., sing. {Matabele}. [Written also {Matabili}.] (Ethnol.) A warlike South African Kaffir tribe.
Matabele n : a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu [syn: {Ndebele}]