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"Dzimba dzemabwe" is how you say Zimbabwe in shona.

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Zimbabwe is an abbreviation for two Shona words: Zvimbo, meaning place, and mabwe, meaning rocks or stones.

In other words it is short for place of rocks

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It means great houses of stone.

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