"tembisa" meaning in All languages combined

See tembisa on Wiktionary

Verb [Fanagalo]

Etymology: From Zulu -thembisa. Etymology templates: {{inh|fng|zu|thembisa|-thembisa}} Zulu -thembisa Head templates: {{head|fng|verb}} tembisa
  1. to assure, to promise
    Sense id: en-tembisa-fng-verb-elYrESgJ Categories (other): Fanagalo entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fng",
        "2": "zu",
        "3": "thembisa",
        "4": "-thembisa"
      },
      "expansion": "Zulu -thembisa",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Zulu -thembisa.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fng",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "tembisa",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Fanagalo",
  "lang_code": "fng",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Fanagalo entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to assure, to promise"
      ],
      "id": "en-tembisa-fng-verb-elYrESgJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "assure",
          "assure"
        ],
        [
          "promise",
          "promise"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tembisa"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fng",
        "2": "zu",
        "3": "thembisa",
        "4": "-thembisa"
      },
      "expansion": "Zulu -thembisa",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Zulu -thembisa.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fng",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "tembisa",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Fanagalo",
  "lang_code": "fng",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Fanagalo entries with incorrect language header",
        "Fanagalo lemmas",
        "Fanagalo terms derived from Zulu",
        "Fanagalo terms inherited from Zulu",
        "Fanagalo verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to assure, to promise"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assure",
          "assure"
        ],
        [
          "promise",
          "promise"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tembisa"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tembisa meaning in All languages combined (0.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.