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Xhosa

Xhosa

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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

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Xhosa

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

Afrikaans: Xhosa (af), Khosa
Albanian: gjuha Xhosa
Arabic: الْكُوسِيَّة f (al-kūsiyya)
Breton: Xhosaeg
Bulgarian: кхоса (khosa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 科薩語／科萨语 (zh) (Kēsà yǔ)
Chuvash: коса чӗлхи (kos̬a č̬ĕlh̬i)
Dutch: Xhosa (nl)
Esperanto: kosa lingvo
Finnish: xhosa (fi)
French: xhosa (fr)
Galician: xhosa m
Ido: Xosa-linguo
Irish: Cóisis f
Italian: xhosa (it) m
Japanese: コサ語 (ja) (kosa-go)
Korean: 코사어 (kosa'eo)
Limburgish: Xhosa (li)
Navajo: Xhosa Dineʼé bizaad
Polish: xhosa
Portuguese: xhosa (pt) m, xossa m
Russian: ко́са (ru) (kósa)
Spanish: xhosa (es) m
Swahili: Kixhosa
Swedish: xhosa (sv)
Xhosa: isiXhosa
Zulu: isiXhosa

Xhosa people

Afrikaans: Xhosa (af)
Arabic: كُوسِيُّون m (kūsiyyūn)
Bengali: কোসা (kōśa)
Esperanto: koso (eo) (man or woman), kosino (woman)
French: Xhosa (fr) m or f
Swahili: Mxhosa
Swedish: xhosa (sv)
Xhosa: amaXhosa

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Oxford Advanced learner's Dictionary
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 “Xhosa” (US) / “Xhosa” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 “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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