English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
Pronunciation [edit]
tribe (plural tribes)
- A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
group of people
- Arabic: قبيلة (ar) (qabīla) f
- Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (c'eġ)
- Asturian: tribu (ast) f
- Azeri: qəbilə (az)
- Belarusian: племя (be) (pljémja) n, род (be) (rod) m
- Bulgarian: племе (bg) (pléme) n, род (bg) (rod) m
- Catalan: tribu (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 部落 (cmn) (bùluò)
- Czech: kmen (cs) m, rod (cs) m
- Danish: stamme (da)
- Dutch: stam (nl) m
- Esperanto: tribo (eo), (diminutive) tribeto (eo)
- Estonian: hõim (et)
- Finnish: heimo (fi)
- French: tribu (fr) f
- Galician: tribo (gl) m
- Georgian: ტომი (ka) (tomi)
- German: Stamm (de) m, Volksstamm (de) m, Sippe (de) f, Volk (de) n, Völkchen (de) n, Völklein (de) n, Sippschaft (de) f, (biology) Tribus (de) f, Völkerschaft (de) f
- Greek: φύλο (el) (fýlo) n, φυλή (el) (fylí) f
- Hebrew: שבט (he) (shévet) m [ שְׁבָטִים (he) (shvatím) m pl, שֵׁבֶט־ (he) (shévet-) mשֵׁבֶט־ (he) (shivté-) m pl ]
- Hindi: जनजाति (hi) (janjāti)
- Hungarian: törzs (hu)
- Indonesian: suku (id) / suku bangsa
- Interlingua: tribo (ia)
- Italian: tribù (it) f
- Japanese: 部族 (ja) (ぶぞく, buzoku), 民族 (ja) (みんぞく, minzoku)
- Kazakh: тайпа (kk) (taypa)
- Khmer: កុលសម័្ពន្ធ (km) (kolsɑmpoan)
- Korean: 겨레 (ko) (gyeore), 부족 (ko) (bujok) (部族 (ko))
- Lao: ຊົນເຜົ່າ (lo) (son phao)
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- Latgalian: patauta
- Latin: tribus (la) f
- Latvian: cilts (lv)
- Lithuanian: gentis (lt) m
- Macedonian: племе (mk) (pléme) n
- Malay: suku (ms)
- Maori: iwi (mi)
- Novial: tribu
- Occitan: tribú (oc)
- Old English: þēod (ang)
- Persian: قبیله (fa) (qabile)
- Polish: plemię (pl) n, ród (pl) m
- Portuguese: tribo (pt) f
- Romanian: trib (ro) n
- Russian: племя (ru) (plémja) n, род (ru) (rod) m
- Saterland Frisian: Stamme pl
- Scottish Gaelic: cinneadh (gd) m, seòrsa (gd) m, sliochd (gd) m, treubh (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: племе (sh) n
- Roman: pleme (sh) n
- Slovak: kmeň (sk) m, rod (sk) m
- Slovene: pleme (sl) n
- Spanish: tribu (es) f
- Swahili: kabila (sw)
- Swedish: stam (sv)
- Tajik: қабила (tg) (qabila)
- Telugu: తెగ (te)
- Thai: เผ่า (th) (phao) n
- Turkish: halk (tr), kabile (tr), meslek grubu (tr)
- Ukrainian: плем'я (uk) (plém'ja) n, рід (uk) (rid) m
- Vietnamese: bộ lạc (vi) (部落 (vi))
- Volapük: tribüt (vo), (diminutive) tribütil (vo), pöpatribüt (vo)
- Yiddish: שבֿט (yi) (sheyvet, schejwet) m
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collective noun
- See at the relevant animal entry.
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See also [edit]
tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)
- (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
- Archbishop Nicolson
- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
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