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  2. Lobolo - Wikipedia

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    Lobolo or lobola in Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Silozi, and northern and southern Ndebele (mahadi in Sesotho, mahari in Swahili, magadi in Sepedi, bogadi Setswana, lovola in Xitsonga, mamalo in Tshivenda, and roora in ChiShona), sometimes referred to as "bride wealth" [1] [2] [3] or "bride price" is a property in livestock or kind, which a prospective husband, or head of his family, undertakes to give ...

  3. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    Identical meaning to the English word in all of its interpretations, i.e.: pig, pork (varkvleis), arsehole (vulgar). van die os op die wa af – lit. "from the ox onto the wagon and off". Similar to "speaking of which" and "while we're on the subject" van toeka se dae af – lit. "since the olden days".

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]

  6. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  7. English words of African origin - Wikipedia

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    sambo – Fula sambo meaning "uncle" sangoma – from Zulu – "traditional healer" (often used in South African English) shea – A tree and the oil Shea butter which comes from its seeds, comes from its name in Bambara; tango – probably from Ibibio tamgu; tilapia – possibly a Latinization of "tlhapi", the Tswana word for "fish" [14]

  8. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    The stem of a plant, especially a woody one; also used to mean a rootstock, or particularly a basal stem structure or storage organ from which new growth arises. Compare lignotuber. caudiciform Stem-like or caudex-like; sometimes used to mean "pachycaul", meaning "thick-stemmed". caudicle diminutive of caudex.

  9. Glossary - Wikipedia

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    A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language. In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology.