Tamboukin.adj.

/tamˈbuːki/

Forms: Also Tamboekie, Tambookie, Tambuki, etc., and with lower-case initial.

Etymology: < South African Dutch, < Tembu, tribal name + diminutive ending -kje.

†A. n.

The Tembu people. Cf. Tembu n. Obsolete.

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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > other peoples of Southern Africa

Zimba1625

Tambouki1786

Hottentot1795

Morolong1815

Oorlam1815

Barolong1823

Tembu1827

Fingo1829

Ngwaketsea1832

Ovaherero1851

Lunda1857

Herero1862

Swazi1878

Magwamba1884

Khoisan1929

Rolong1937

1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. 147 On the other side of Zomo dwells another nation, who, by the Snese-Hottentots, are called Tambukis.

1792 E. Riou tr. J. van Reenen Jrnl. Journey from Cape Good Hope 24 The country of the Tamboekies.

1792 E. Riou tr. J. van Reenen Jrnl. Journey from Cape Good Hope 42 The country of Captain Joobie the Tambookie.

1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. iii. 201 With the Tambookies they live on friendly terms.

1824 Brownlee Let. in G. Thompson Trav. & Adv. in S. Afr. (1827) i. xviii. 209 A tribe called Amaponda, who live on the coast to the eastward of the Tambookies.

1874 Friend (Bloemfontein) 2 Apr. We were not sure but that the Tambookies would join the confederacy against us.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 3/1 The Ama-Tembu nation, popularly called Tambookies.

B. adj.

†1. Designating or pertaining to the Tembu people. Obsolete. Cf. Tembu adj.

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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [adjective] > other peoples of Southern Africa

Siddi1737

Kaffir1763

Barolong1802

Setswana1811

Tambouki1827

Motswana1835

Swazi1872

Lunda1879

Tswana1891

Tembu1927

Rolong1935

Batswana1953

1827 G. Thompson Trav. S. Afr. iii. iii. 357 Beyond the Winterberg, where the boors and the Tambookie tribe pasture their herds on the same plains.

1835 N. Adams Let. 5 June in D. J. Kotzé Lett. Amer. Missionaries (1950) 75 There is a good waggon road to Natal through the Tambookie country.

1846 J. C. Brown tr. T. Arbousset & F. Daumas Narr. Explor. xii. 93 Lekoro..undertook a military expedition to the Tambuqui country.

1860 W. Shaw My Mission in S.E. Afr. 486 The Rev. John Ayliff, the resident Missionary, was constrained to escape with his family, accompanied by the native inhabitants of the Mission village, and take refuge in the Tembookie country.

1875 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) 460 Tambookieland, the country formerly inhabited by the Tambookie tribes of Kaffirs.

2. Of or belonging to Tembu-land, as in tambouki grass, one of several tall coarse grasses of southern Africa, esp. one of the genus Cymbopogon or Hyparrhenia; tambouki wood, tamboti wood (see tambotie n. 1).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > African

sour grass1801

tambouki grass1837

stickgrass1838

pypgrass1854

Bushman grass1857

twa-grass1857

tambotie grass1866

rooigras1875

steekgras1890

Napier grass1920

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees > Southern African

kamassi1793

kiaat1801

sneezewood1834

tambouki wood1837

1837 J. Kirkman in F. Owen Diary (1926) 158 The mother and child had hidden under the long Tambookie grass.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tambookie-wood, a hard handsome furniture-wood: when powdered it is used by the Zulus of Africa as an emetic.

1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines iv Dry tambouki grass..is made into a bed.

1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 382/1 [The grass] was dashed aside by some large object that came rapidly towards him, but was concealed beneath the long tambouki.

1910 J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 230 I was..into a piece of parkland with long, waving tambuki grass.

1963 H. C. Bosman Unto Dust 119 Her hair was bleached the yellow of tamboekie grass in winter.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	tambouki
释义	Tamboukin.adj. /tamˈbuːki/ Forms: Also Tamboekie, Tambookie, Tambuki, etc., and with lower-case initial. Etymology: < South African Dutch, < Tembu, tribal name + diminutive ending -kje. †A. n. The Tembu people. Cf. Tembu n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > other peoples of Southern Africa Zimba1625 Tambouki1786 Hottentot1795 Morolong1815 Oorlam1815 Barolong1823 Tembu1827 Fingo1829 Ngwaketsea1832 Ovaherero1851 Lunda1857 Herero1862 Swazi1878 Magwamba1884 Khoisan1929 Rolong1937 1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. 147 On the other side of Zomo dwells another nation, who, by the Snese-Hottentots, are called Tambukis. 1792 E. Riou tr. J. van Reenen Jrnl. Journey from Cape Good Hope 24 The country of the Tamboekies. 1792 E. Riou tr. J. van Reenen Jrnl. Journey from Cape Good Hope 42 The country of Captain Joobie the Tambookie. 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. iii. 201 With the Tambookies they live on friendly terms. 1824 Brownlee Let. in G. Thompson Trav. & Adv. in S. Afr. (1827) i. xviii. 209 A tribe called Amaponda, who live on the coast to the eastward of the Tambookies. 1874 Friend (Bloemfontein) 2 Apr. We were not sure but that the Tambookies would join the confederacy against us. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 3/1 The Ama-Tembu nation, popularly called Tambookies. B. adj. †1. Designating or pertaining to the Tembu people. Obsolete. Cf. Tembu adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [adjective] > other peoples of Southern Africa Siddi1737 Kaffir1763 Barolong1802 Setswana1811 Tambouki1827 Motswana1835 Swazi1872 Lunda1879 Tswana1891 Tembu1927 Rolong1935 Batswana1953 1827 G. Thompson Trav. S. Afr. iii. iii. 357 Beyond the Winterberg, where the boors and the Tambookie tribe pasture their herds on the same plains. 1835 N. Adams Let. 5 June in D. J. Kotzé Lett. Amer. Missionaries (1950) 75 There is a good waggon road to Natal through the Tambookie country. 1846 J. C. Brown tr. T. Arbousset & F. Daumas Narr. Explor. xii. 93 Lekoro..undertook a military expedition to the Tambuqui country. 1860 W. Shaw My Mission in S.E. Afr. 486 The Rev. John Ayliff, the resident Missionary, was constrained to escape with his family, accompanied by the native inhabitants of the Mission village, and take refuge in the Tembookie country. 1875 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) 460 Tambookieland, the country formerly inhabited by the Tambookie tribes of Kaffirs. 2. Of or belonging to Tembu-land, as in tambouki grass, one of several tall coarse grasses of southern Africa, esp. one of the genus Cymbopogon or Hyparrhenia; tambouki wood, tamboti wood (see tambotie n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > African sour grass1801 tambouki grass1837 stickgrass1838 pypgrass1854 Bushman grass1857 twa-grass1857 tambotie grass1866 rooigras1875 steekgras1890 Napier grass1920 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees > Southern African kamassi1793 kiaat1801 sneezewood1834 tambouki wood1837 1837 J. Kirkman in F. Owen Diary (1926) 158 The mother and child had hidden under the long Tambookie grass. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tambookie-wood, a hard handsome furniture-wood: when powdered it is used by the Zulus of Africa as an emetic. 1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines iv Dry tambouki grass..is made into a bed. 1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 382/1 [The grass] was dashed aside by some large object that came rapidly towards him, but was concealed beneath the long tambouki. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 230 I was..into a piece of parkland with long, waving tambuki grass. 1963 H. C. Bosman Unto Dust 119 Her hair was bleached the yellow of tamboekie grass in winter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1786
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