tsebe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsɛbeɪ/

Noun

tsebe

1. (archaic) The springbok.
   • c. 1856, Natural History, Charles Knight:

     […] 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.

   • 1888, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham: Being Papers Read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, page 275:

     Pair of Antlers of Axis Deer and Horns of Spring-Boc, or Tsebe, Antidorcas Euchore.

Anagrams

• Beets, Beste, beest, beets, beset

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