Noun
Vazimba pl (plural only)
(folklore) The first inhabitants of Madagascar, generally described as small in stature.
According to the historian Edward Ralaimihoatra, who calls these Austronesians globally the Vazimba, without distinguishing between the coastal Vezo, and the Vazimba of the forest. Source: Internet
Antananarivo was founded from about 1610 to 1625, when the Merina king Andrianjaka (1612–1630) expelled the Vazimba inhabitants of the village of Analamanga at the highest meeting point of two forested ridges rising above the surrounding highland plains. Source: Internet
Rafandrana, an ancestor of the Merina royal dynasty, for example, is known to have been a Vazimba. Source: Internet