zulu

Other forms of zulu

plural

zulus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about zulu

What does zulu mean?

zulu means "a member of the tall Negroid people of eastern South Africa; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in zulu?

zulu has 2 syllables: zu-lu. The stress falls on "zu". In IPA it is /ˈzuˌlu/.

Is zulu a common word?

zulu is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with zulu?

9 words rhyme with zulu. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.