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English
Etymology
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tribe (plural tribes)
- (history, anthropology) An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may be contained within a nation). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity.
the Twelve Tribes of Israel; Germanic tribes; Celtic tribes
- The Formation of Kazakh Identity: From Tribe to Nation-state
- (synecdochically) A tribal nation or people.
- (derogatory) A nation or people in an area considered culturally primitive, such as Africa, Australia or Native America.
- A socially cohesive group of people within a society.
2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 26:The thought of spending a year in close company with twitchers chilled me to the core. Not that I have anything against them, I am terribly fond of the members of the tribe, it is just that basically, they are a bunch of obsessive freaks.
- A class or group of things.
1972, Carol A. Nemeyer, Scholarly Reprint Publishing in the United States, New York, N.Y.: R. R. Bowker Co., →ISBN, page 7:In 1968, estimates of the number of active reprint publishers ranged from about 20 to 100 publishers. The fact that almost 300 U.S. reprint publishers have been identified is evidence that the reprint tribe continues to increase.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
- A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians.
- The collective noun for various animals.
- (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
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Translations
group of people
- Albanian: fis (sq) m
- Arabic: قَبِيلَة (ar) f (qabīla), عَشِيرَة (ar) f (ʕašīra), قَوْم m (qawm)
- Egyptian Arabic: قوم m (ʔōm)
- Hijazi Arabic: قَبِيلَة f (gabīla)
- Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (cʻeġ)
- Asturian: tribu f
- Azerbaijani: qəbilə (az), tayfa, qövm
- Bashkir: ҡәбилә (qəbilə)
- Belarusian: пле́мя n (pljémja), род m (rod)
- Bengali: উপজাতি (bn) (upojati)
- Bulgarian: пле́ме (bg) n (pléme), род (bg) m (rod)
- Burmese: အမျိုးအနွယ် (my) (a.myui:a.nwai), အမျိုးဇာတ် (my) (a.myui:jat)
- Catalan: tribu (ca) f
- Chechen: тукхам (tuqam)
- Chickasaw: okloshi'
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 部落 (zh) (bùluò), 部族 (zh) (bùzú)
- Crimean Tatar: qabile
- Czech: kmen (cs) m, rod (cs) m
- Danish: stamme (da) c, folkestamme c
- Dutch: stam (nl) m
- Egyptian: (wḥyt f)
- Esperanto: tribo
- Estonian: hõim
- Farefare: buuri
- Faroese: ættarbólkur m (biblical), ættargrein f (biblical)
- Finnish: heimo (fi)
- French: tribu (fr) f
- Galician: tribo (gl) m
- Georgian: ტომი (ṭomi)
- German: Stamm (de) m, Volksstamm (de) m, Sippe (de) f, Volk (de) n, Völkchen (de) n, Völklein n, Sippschaft (de) f, (biology) Tribus (de) f, Völkerschaft (de) f
- Greek: φύλο (el) n (fýlo), φυλή (el) f (fylí)
- Ancient: φυλή f (phulḗ)
- Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט (he) m (shévet)
- Hindi: जनजाति (hi) f (janjāti), क़बीला m (qabīlā), क़ौम f (qaum)
- Hungarian: törzs (hu)
- Icelandic: ættkvísl (is) f
- Ido: tribuo (io)
- Indonesian: suku (id), suku bangsa
- Ingush: тукхам (tuqam)
- Interlingua: tribo
- Irish: treibh f
- Italian: tribù (it) f
- Japanese: 部族 (ja) (ぶぞく, buzoku), 民族 (ja) (みんぞく, minzoku)
- Kazakh: тайпа (taipa), ұлыс (ūlys)
- Khmer: កុលសម័្ពន្ធ (kolsampŏən)
- Korean: 겨레 (ko) (gyeore), 부족(部族) (ko) (bujok), 민족(民族) (ko) (minjok)
- Kumyk: эл (el)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: eşîr (ku)
- Kyrgyz: уруу (ky) (uruu), тукум (ky) (tukum), эл (ky) (el)
- Lao: ຊົນເຜົ່າ (lo) (son phao), ເຜົ່າ (phao)
- Latgalian: patauta
- Latin: tribus (la) f
- Latvian: cilts m
- Lithuanian: gentis m
- Macedonian: племе n (pleme)
- Malay: suku (ms), puak
- Manchu: ᠠᡳᠮᠠᠨ (aiman), ᠠᡳᠮᠠᠨ
ᡥᠣᡴᡳ (aiman hoki)
- Maori: iwi, mātāwaka
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: овог (mn) (ovog), аймаг (mn) (ajmag)
- Moore: buudu
- Nandi: em
- Ngazidja Comorian: kaɓila class 5/6
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stamme (no) m, folkestamme m
- Nynorsk: stamme m or f, folkestamme m or f
- Occitan: tribú (oc)
- Old English: þēod f
- Persian: قَبیلِه (fa) (qabile), عَشیرِه (fa) ('ašire), زَند (fa) (zand) (archaic), قُوم (fa) (qowm)
- Polish: plemię (pl) n, ród (pl) m
- Portuguese: tribo (pt) f
- Romanian: trib (ro) n
- Russian: пле́мя (ru) n (plémja), род (ru) m (rod)
- Saterland Frisian: Stamme pl
- Scottish Gaelic: cinneadh m, seòrsa m, sliochd m, treubh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пле̏ме n
- Roman: plȅme (sh) n
- Slovak: kmeň (sk) m, rod (sk) m
- Slovene: pleme (sl) n
- Somali: qabiil
- Spanish: tribu (es) f
- Sudovian: gintu
- Swahili: kabila (sw)
- Swedish: stam (sv) c
- Tagalog: tribo (tl)
- Tajik: қабила (qabila), қавм (qavm), ашира (ašira)
- Tatar: кабилә (tt) (qabilä)
- Telugu: తెగ (te) (tega)
- Thai: เผ่า (th) (pào), ตระกูล (th) (dtrà-guun)
- Tibetan: སྡེ་རིགས (sde rigs)
- Tlingit: ḵwáan
- Turkish: boy (tr), kabile (tr)
- Turkmen: taýpa
- Ukrainian: пле́м'я n (plémʺja), рід m (rid)
- Urdu: قَبِیلہ m (qabīla), قَوْم (ur) f (qaum)
- Uyghur: قوۋم (qowm), قەبىلە (qebile)
- Uzbek: qabila (uz)
- Vietnamese: bộ lạc (vi) (部落), bộ tộc (vi) (部族)
- Volapük: tribüt (vo), (diminutive) tribütil, pöpatribüt
- Welsh: llwyth (cy) m, llwythau (cy) m pl
- Yiddish: שבֿט m (sheyvet)
- Zazaki: eşîr
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collective noun (see at the relevant animal entry)
Verb
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.
- 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library
- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
See also
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtriːb(ə)/, /ˈtriːbu/
Noun
tribe (plural tribus)
- One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
- (rare) A league or grouping.
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