Xhosa
See also: xhosa
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Xhosa (ísí)Xhosa (“Xhosa language”) and (úḿ)Xhosa (“Xhosa person”), where the sequence xh denotes a click (/ˈǁʰoːsa/):
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Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.sə/,[1][2][3] /ˈkɔ.sə/[2][3]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.sə/,[2] /ˈkɔː.sə/[1][2]
Noun
Xhosa (countable and uncountable, plural Xhosas or Xhosa)
- (countable) Any member of a Bantu people from South Africa, most of whom live in the Eastern Cape.
- (uncountable) The language of these people, a Bantu language related to Zulu.
Translations
Xhosa language
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Xhosa terms
- Xhosa - English Dictionary: from Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
- Xhosa - English & English - Xhosa Translator at Albion College
References
- Oxford Advanced learner's Dictionary
- “Xhosa” (US) / “Xhosa” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “Xhosa”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading
- ISO 639-1 code xh, ISO 639-3 code xho (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Xhosa, xho
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