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English
Pronunciation
Noun
tsebe
- (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
Northern Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njèbé, a variant of Proto-Bantu *ndèbé, derived from Proto-Bantu *-dèba (“be slack, be hanging”).
Noun
tsebe
- 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)
- ear
Tswana
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *njèbé, a variant of Proto-Bantu *ndèbé, derived from Proto-Bantu *-dèba (“be slack, be hanging”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tsêbê class 9 (plural ditsebe)
- ear