Impi is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 19 anagrams from letters in impi (iimp).
1875-80; Zulu: impi, armed force, battle
The afternoon was now drawing towards evening, but still there were no signs of the impi.
This was in a measure stilled as the leader of the impi strode to the fore.
On the 2nd of July an impi, 20,000 strong, advanced from Ulundi as if to attack.
Either the impi had not yet arrived, or it had gone by some other road.
He pointed in a dignified way towards the Matabele impi in the distance. '
How a man—an impi—could fight if doctored with such múti as this, say in the Nkandhla!
The bulk of the impi was in the background and beyond reach of the falling rocks.
Then an impi was sent to punish these women, and a great number were killed.
Wambe has an impi out to kill us, and it will be here presently.'
He had been killed by order of the chief, and the impi had been ‘doctored’ with his blood.