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Ngami

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[ng-gah-mee] / ŋˈgɑ mi /

noun

  1. Lake, a shallow marshy lake in NW Botswana, N of the Kalahari desert. About 40 miles (64 km) long.


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Those plaintiffs are the families of 24-year-old Samya Rose Stumo, and of a married Kenyan couple, Jared Babu Mwazo and Mercy Ngami Ndivo, who left behind a baby.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2024

We had left our wagons at Shoshong, in what is now Kama’s country, and struck out with three pack oxen and six “boys” towards the north-west, vaguely hoping to reach Lake Ngami.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Two months later the Van Zyls were nearing Ndala’s kraal on the Okavango, sometimes called the Cubangwe River—that great and little known stream flowing from the north-west towards Lake Ngami.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.

The Kalahari is so waterless as to offer considerable difficulties to European hunters, and the country round Lake Ngami is swampy and feverish.

From Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Ovampoland has a hydrographic system connected with the Kunene, and, in seasons of great flood, with that of Ngami.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various