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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ.sə/ [General-American], /ˈkəʊ.sə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: Xhosas [plural], Xhosa [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Xhosa (ísí)Xhosa (“Xhosa language”) and (úḿ)Xhosa (“Xhosa person”), where the sequence xh denotes a click (/ˈǁʰoːsa/): * Audio: (file) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|xh|ísíXhosa|(ísí)Xhosa|t=Xhosa language}} Xhosa (ísí)Xhosa (“Xhosa language”), {{audio|xh|Xhosa.ogg|nocat=1}} Audio: (file) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|Xhosa}} Xhosa (countable and uncountable, plural Xhosas or Xhosa)
  1. (countable) Any member of a Bantu people from South Africa, most of whom live in the Eastern Cape. Tags: countable Related terms (Xhosa - English Dictionary): Webster's Dictionary (english: the Rosetta Edition.)
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  2. (uncountable) The language of these people, a Bantu language related to Zulu. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Languages Translations (Xhosa language): Xhosa (Afrikaans), Khosa (Afrikaans), gjuha Xhosa (Albanian), الْكُوسِيَّة (al-kūsiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), Xhosaeg (Breton), кхоса (khosa) (Bulgarian), 科薩語 (Chinese Mandarin), 科萨语 (Kēsà yǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), коса чӗлхи (kos̬a č̬ĕlh̬i) (Chuvash), Xhosa (Dutch), kosa lingvo (Esperanto), xhosa (Finnish), xhosa (French), xhosa [masculine] (Galician), Xosa-linguo (Ido), Cóisis [feminine] (Irish), xhosa [masculine] (Italian), コサ語 (kosa-go) (Japanese), 코사어 (kosa'eo) (Korean), Xhosa (Limburgish), Xhosa Dineʼé bizaad (Navajo), xhosa (Polish), xhosa [masculine] (Portuguese), xossa [masculine] (Portuguese), ко́са (kósa) (Russian), xhosa [masculine] (Spanish), Kixhosa (Swahili), xhosa (Swedish), isiXhosa (Xhosa), isiXhosa (Zulu) Translations (Xhosa people): Xhosa (Afrikaans), كُوسِيُّون (kūsiyyūn) [masculine] (Arabic), কোসা (kōśa) (Bengali), koso (english: man or woman) (Esperanto), kosino (english: woman) (Esperanto), Xhosa [feminine, masculine] (French), Mxhosa (Swahili), xhosa (Swedish), amaXhosa (Xhosa)
    Sense id: en-Xhosa-en-noun-aGCb77gj Disambiguation of Languages: 40 60 Categories (other): Terms with Zulu translations Disambiguation of Terms with Zulu translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'Xhosa language': 29 71 Disambiguation of 'Xhosa people': 39 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Xhosa - English & English - Xhosa Translator at Albion College

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Limburgish translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Navajo translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swahili translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Xhosa translations",
    "Terms with Zulu translations",
    "en:Languages"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xh",
        "3": "ísíXhosa",
        "4": "(ísí)Xhosa",
        "t": "Xhosa language"
      },
      "expansion": "Xhosa (ísí)Xhosa (“Xhosa language”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xh",
        "2": "Xhosa.ogg",
        "nocat": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Audio: (file)",
      "name": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Xhosa (ísí)Xhosa (“Xhosa language”) and (úḿ)Xhosa (“Xhosa person”), where the sequence xh denotes a click (/ˈǁʰoːsa/):\n*\n Audio: (file)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Xhosas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Xhosa",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "Xhosa"
      },
      "expansion": "Xhosa (countable and uncountable, plural Xhosas or Xhosa)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "the Rosetta Edition.",
      "sense": "Xhosa - English Dictionary",
      "urls": [
        "https://web.archive.org/web/20040413042205/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Xhosa-english/",
        "https://web.archive.org/web/20120223164907/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/"
      ],
      "word": "Webster's Dictionary"
    },
    {
      "urls": [
        "https://web.archive.org/web/20040805124935/http://mokennon2.albion.edu/xhosa.htm"
      ],
      "word": "Xhosa - English & English - Xhosa Translator at Albion College"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any member of a Bantu people from South Africa, most of whom live in the Eastern Cape."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bantu",
          "Bantu"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "South Africa",
          "South Africa"
        ],
        [
          "Eastern Cape",
          "Eastern Cape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) Any member of a Bantu people from South Africa, most of whom live in the Eastern Cape."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The language of these people, a Bantu language related to Zulu."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "Bantu",
          "Bantu"
        ],
        [
          "Zulu",
          "Zulu"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The language of these people, a Bantu language related to Zulu."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkoʊ.sə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈkɔ.sə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkəʊ.sə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈkɔː.sə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Khosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "gjuha Xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "al-kūsiyya",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "الْكُوسِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Xhosaeg"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "khosa",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "кхоса"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "科薩語"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Kēsà yǔ",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "科萨语"
    },
    {
      "code": "cv",
      "lang": "Chuvash",
      "roman": "kos̬a č̬ĕlh̬i",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "коса чӗлхи"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "kosa lingvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Xosa-linguo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Cóisis"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kosa-go",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "コサ語"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "kosa'eo",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "코사어"
    },
    {
      "code": "li",
      "lang": "Limburgish",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Xhosa Dineʼé bizaad"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "xossa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kósa",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "ко́са"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "Kixhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "xh",
      "lang": "Xhosa",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "isiXhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "Xhosa language",
      "word": "isiXhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "word": "Xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kūsiyyūn",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "كُوسِيُّون"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "kōśa",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "word": "কোসা"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "english": "man or woman",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "word": "koso"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "english": "woman",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "word": "kosino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "word": "Mxhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "word": "xhosa"
    },
    {
      "code": "xh",
      "lang": "Xhosa",
      "sense": "Xhosa people",
      "word": "amaXhosa"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Xhosa"
  ],
  "word": "Xhosa"
}

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