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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
PronunciationEdit
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.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
- the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
group of people
- Arabic: قبيلة (ar) f (qabīla)
- Egyptian Arabic: قبيلة f (qabīla)
- Armenian: ցեղ (cʿeł)
- Asturian: tribu f
- Azeri: qəbilə
- Belarusian: племя n (pljémja), род m (rod)
- Bulgarian: племе (bg) n (pléme), род (bg) m (rod)
- Catalan: tribu f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 部落 (zh) (bùluò)
- Czech: kmen (cs) m, rod (cs) m
- Danish: stamme
- Dutch: stam (nl) m
- Esperanto: tribo, (diminutive) tribeto
- Estonian: hõim
- Faroese: ættarbólkur m (biblical), ættargrein f (biblical)
- Finnish: heimo (fi)
- French: tribu (fr) f
- Galician: tribo (gl) m
- Georgian: ტომი (tomi)
- German: Stamm (de) m, Volksstamm (de) m, Sippe (de) f, Volk (de) n, Völkchen n, Völklein n, Sippschaft (de) f, (biology) Tribus (de) f, Völkerschaft f
- Greek: φύλο (el) n (fýlo), φυλή (el) f (fylí)
- Hebrew: שבט (he) m (shévet) [ שְׁבָטִים m pl (shvatím), שֵׁבֶט־ m (shévet-)שֵׁבֶט־ m pl (shivté-) ]
- Hindi: जनजाति (janjāti)
- Hungarian: törzs (hu)
- Indonesian: suku (id) / suku bangsa
- Interlingua: tribo
- Italian: tribù (it) f
- Japanese: 部族 (ぶぞく, buzoku), 民族 (ja) (みんぞく, minzoku)
- Kazakh: тайпа (taypa)
- Khmer: កុលសម័្ពន្ធ (kolsɑmpoan)
- Korean: 겨레 (ko) (gyeore), 부족 (ko) (bujok) (部族 (ko))
- Lao: ຊົນເຜົ່າ (lo) (son phao)
- Latgalian: patauta
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- Latin: tribus f
- Latvian: cilts
- Lithuanian: gentis m
- Macedonian: племе n (pléme)
- Malay: suku, puak
- Maori: iwi
- Novial: tribu
- Occitan: tribú
- Old English: þēod
- Persian: قبیله (fa) (qabile), زند (fa) (zand) (archaic)
- Polish: plemię (pl) n, ród (pl) m
- Portuguese: tribo (pt) f
- Romanian: trib n
- Russian: племя (ru) n (plémja), род (ru) m (rod)
- Saterland Frisian: Stamme pl
- Scottish Gaelic: cinneadh m, seòrsa m, sliochd m, treubh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: племе n
- Roman: pleme n
- Slovak: kmeň m, rod m
- Slovene: pleme (sl) n
- Spanish: tribu (es) f
- Swahili: kabila (sw)
- Swedish: stam (sv)
- Tagalog: tribo (tl)
- Tajik: қабила (qabila)
- Telugu: తెగ (te) (tega)
- Thai: เผ่า n (phao)
- Tlingit: ḵwáan
- Turkish: halk (tr), kabile (tr), meslek grubu
- Ukrainian: плем'я n (plém'ja), рід m (rid)
- Vietnamese: bộ lạc (vi) (部落)
- Volapük: tribüt (vo), (diminutive) tribütil, pöpatribüt
- Yiddish: שבֿט m (sheyvet, schejwet)
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collective noun (see at the relevant animal entry)
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.
