Mozambique

Meanings

Proper Noun

• An island or its town in the province of province, Nampula, Mozambique (country), (from which its name was transferred to the country).
• The modern, Mozambique Channel, a broad strait which separates the island of Madagascar from the African mainland of Mozambique.

Noun

• A native or inhabitant of Mozambique; a Mozambican.

Origin

• Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique, from the name of sultan Muça Alebique.