Barolong, noun
- Forms:
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α. Show more singular Morolong (rare); singular and plural Baralong, Barolong, Borolong, Brolong;
β. singular and plural Rolong.
- Plurals:
- usually unchanged, or Barolongs, Rolong.
A member of a Tswana people acknowledging Morolong as common ancestor, and living mainly in the North West Province and Botswana. See also Hurutshe, Tswana sense 2 a. Also attributive, passing into adjective.
α.
[1802 Truter & Somerville in G.M. Theal Rec. of Cape Col. (1899) IV. 404He had been with the well known Cornelis Kok on a journey through the dorp Patania and Litakoe to the Barrolow nation.]
1989 J. Crwys-Williams S. Afr. Despatches 169Members of the ‘Black Watch’ (armed Baralongs from the ‘native stadt’).
β.
1940 P.R. Kirby Diary of Dr Andrew Smith II. 142This native was a Rolong, who was probably taken to England by the Wesleyan missionaries.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 113Warden in 1851 assembled a combined force of troops, white farmers, Griqua, Kora and Rolong, and launched an attack on Moletsane’s Taung as the prelude to a move against Moshoeshoe.
A member of a Tswana people acknowledging Morolong as common ancestor, and living mainly in the North West Province and Botswana.
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