tsebe

English

Noun

tsebe

  1. (archaic) The springbok.
    • c. 1856, Charles Knight, Natural History
      […] the Tsebe, or Spring-Boc, Prong-Boc, or Showy Goat, is perhaps the most graceful in its proportions, and beautifully varied in its colours, of all the antelope tribe.

Anagrams

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *njèbé, a variant of Proto-Bantu *ndèbé, derived from Proto-Bantu *-dèba (“be slack, be hanging”).

Noun

tsebe

  1. ear

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *njèbé, a variant of Proto-Bantu *ndèbé, derived from Proto-Bantu *-dèba (“be slack, be hanging”).

Noun

tsebe class 9/10 (plural ditsebe)

  1. ear

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *njèbé, a variant of Proto-Bantu *ndèbé, derived from Proto-Bantu *-dèba (“be slack, be hanging”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tsɛ̀.bɛ́/

Noun

tsêbê class 9 (plural ditsebe)

  1. ear
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