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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
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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.
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group of people
- Arabic: قبيلة (ar) f.
- Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (c'eġ)
- Bulgarian: племе (bg) (pleme)
- Catalan: tribu f.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 部落 (cmn) (bùluò)
- Croatian: plȅme (hr) n.
- Czech: kmen (cs) m.
- Danish: stamme (da)
- Dutch: stam (nl) m.
- Esperanto: tribo (eo), (diminutive) tribeto (eo)
- Finnish: heimo (fi)
- French: tribu (fr) f.
- Galician: tribo (gl) m.
- 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-) m.שֵׁבֶט־ (he) (shivté-) m. pl. ]
- Hungarian: törzs (hu)
- Indonesian: suku / suku bangsa
- Interlingua: tribo
- Italian: tribù (it) f.
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collective noun
- See at the relevant animal entry.
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