Xhosa

See also: xhosa

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Xhosa, where the sequence xh denotes a click (/ˈkǁʰoːsa/).

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

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)
Albanian: gjuha Xhosa
Breton: Xhosaeg
Bulgarian: кхоса (khosa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 科萨语 (Kēsà yǔ)
Chuvash: коса чӗлхи (kosa čĕlhi)
Dutch: Xhosa (nl)
Esperanto: kosa lingvo
Finnish: xhosa (fi)
French: xhosa (fr)
Galician: lingua xhosa f
Ido: Xosa-linguo

Irish: Cóisis f
Italian: lingua xhosa f
Japanese: コサ語 (ja) (kosa-go)
Limburgish: Xhosa (li)
Navajo: Xhosa Dineʼé bizaad
Polish: xhosa
Portuguese: língua xhosa f, xhosa (pt) m
Russian: ко́са (ru) (kósa)
Spanish: xhosa (es) m
Swahili: Kixhosa
Swedish: xhosa (sv)
Xhosa: isiXhosa
Zulu: isiXhosa

Xhosa people

Afrikaans: Xhosa (af)
Bengali: কোসা (kosa)
Esperanto: koso (eo) (man or woman), kosino (woman)
French: Xhosa (fr) m or f

Swahili: Waxhosa
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

Oxford Advanced learner's Dictionary
“Xhosa” (US) / “Xhosa” (UK) in Macmillan Dictionary
“Xhosa” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Further reading

ISO 639-1 code xh, ISO 639-3 code xho

Ethnologue entry for Xhosa, xh

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