English tribe definition
Etymology
From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tribe (plural tribes)
- A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
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.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
- (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
- (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
- 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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Derived terms
Translations
group of people
- Albanian: fis (sq) m
- Arabic: قَبِيلَة (ar) f (qabīla), عَشِيرَة (ar) f (ʿašīra)
- Egyptian Arabic: قوم m (ʾōm)
- Hijazi Arabic: قَبِيلَة f (gabīla)
- Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (cʿeł)
- Asturian: tribu f
- Azerbaijani: qəbilə (az), tayfa, qövm
- Bashkir: ҡәбилә (qäbilä)
- Belarusian: пле́мя n (pljémja), род m (rod)
- Bengali: উপজাতি (upjati)
- 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 c, folkestamme c
- Dutch: stam (nl) m
- Egyptian: (wḥyt f)
- Esperanto: tribo, (diminutive) tribeto
- 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) (janjāti)
- 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)
- Kumyk: эл (el)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: eşîr (ku)
- Kyrgyz: уруу (ky) (uruu), тукум (ky) (tuqum), эл (ky) (el)
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- 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: овог (mn) (ovog), аймаг (mn) (aymag)
- Moore: buudu
- Ngazidja Comorian: kaɓila 5 or 6
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stamme (no) m, folkestamme m
- Nynorsk: stamme m or f, folkestamme m or f
- Occitan: tribú (oc)
- Old English: þēod
- Persian: قبیله (fa) (qabile), عشیره (fa) (ašire), زند (fa) (zand) (archaic)
- 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)
- 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: قبیلہ (qabīla), قوم (ur) (qaum)
- Uyghur: قوۋم (qowm)
- Uzbek: qabila (uz)
- Vietnamese: bộ lạc (vi) (部落), bộ tộc
- 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 tribe definition
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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