Editing Lemba people (section)

==Etymology==
It has been suggested that the exonym "Lemba" may originate in ''kilemba'' (most likely spread via the [[Mwera language|Mwera]] derivative ''chilemba''), a [[Swahili language|Swahili]] word meaning turban. Thus, in context, the word "Lemba" as an ethnic identifier therefore translates to '''those who wear turbans''<nowiki/>'.<ref name=":0" />

Another theory is that the word "Lemba" may originate from the word ''lembi,'' a term which occurs in several [[Northeast Bantu languages|Northeastern Bantu languages]] meaning a "non-African" or a "respected foreigner".<ref name=":0">Parfitt, Tudor (1992) ''Journey to the Vanished City: the Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel.''see the full explanatory note on p. 263.</ref><ref name="Shimona2003">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRkpQAmnL8oC&q=lemba+halakhic&pg=PA178|title=Community and Conscience: the Jews in Apartheid South Africa|last=Shimoni|first=Gideon|publisher=[[Brandeis University Press]]|year=2003|isbn=978-1-58465-329-5|location=United States of America|page=178|access-date=2010-03-13}}</ref>

The 'Lemba' themselves prefer the name ''Mwenye'' as an exonym but call themselves ''Sena'' (or ''Sana'') as an endonym for their city of origin.<ref name=Parfitt2002>Parfitt, Tudor. (2002), "The Lemba: An African Judaising Tribe", in ''Judaising Movements: Studies in the Margins of Judaism'', edited by Parfitt, Tudor and Trevisan-Semi, E., London: Routledge Curzon, pp. 42–43</ref>