Thandiwe
From Xhosa and Zulu -thanda, "to love", with a passive ending: "beloved, the one who is loved".
Meaning and origin
Thandiwe takes the Xhosa and Zulu verb -thanda, "to love", and adds the passive ending -iwe, so the name reads literally as "one who is loved".
How to pronounce Thandiwe
| Xhosa (South Africa) | than-DEE-weh /tʰanˈdiwe/ |
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