Home › Words › B › bhacabhacabhaca means A Nguni people of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa who descend from the 17th–18th-century chief Zelemu of the Pongola valley.EtymologyFrom -Bhaca, the common element of the Bhaca amaBhaca, iBhaca, isiBhaca, and KwaBhaca.nameA Nguni people of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa who descend from the 17th–18th-century chief Zelemu of the Pongola valley.The Tekela language spoken natively by the Bhaca, traditionally considered a dialect of Swazi.nounAny member of the Bhaca people.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.amakweta 62% match — An abakwetha. vs bhaca →bechuana 60% match — A member of the Tswana people. vs bhaca →abzakh 59% match — A member of this Circassian tribe. vs bhaca →abaza 57% match — A member of an ethnic group living in the northwest Caucasus. vs bhaca →cusabo 57% match — A member of a now-extinct group of American Indian tribes who lived along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in what is now South Carolina, approximately between present-day Charleston and south to the Savannah River, at the time of European colonization. vs bhaca →babenzele 57% match — A member of the Aka people; an Aka. vs bhaca →abakwetha 57% match — A young Xhosa man undergoing the ritual initiation into manhood. vs bhaca →barakzai 56% match — A member of a Pashtun tribe. vs bhaca →