tribe

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• /tɹaɪb/
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Southern English surname of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Latin tribus.

PIE word *tréyes From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus.

186 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: fis — group of people
• Arabic: قَبِيلَة (qabīla) — group of people
• Arabic: عَشِيرَة (ʕašīra) — group of people
• Arabic: قَوْم (qawm) — group of people
• Arabic: قوم (ʔōm) — group of people
• Arabic: قَبِيلَة (gabīla) — group of people
• Arabic: قبيلة (qbīla) — group of people
• Armenian: ցեղ (cʻeġ) — group of people
• Asturian: tribu — group of people
• Azerbaijani: qəbilə — group of people
• Azerbaijani: tayfa — group of people
• Azerbaijani: qövm — group of people
• Bashkir: ҡәбилә (qəbilə) — group of people
• Belarusian: пле́мя (pljémja) — group of people
• Belarusian: род (rod) — group of people
• Bengali: উপজাতি (upojati) — group of people
• Bulgarian: пле́ме (pléme) — group of people
• Bulgarian: род (rod) — group of people
• Burmese: အမျိုးအနွယ် (a.myui:a.nwai) — group of people
• Burmese: အမျိုးဇာတ် (a.myui:jat) — group of people
• Carpathian Rusyn: пле́м'я (plémʺja) — group of people
• Carpathian Rusyn: род (rod) — group of people
• Catalan: tribu — group of people
• Chechen: тукхам (tuqam) — group of people
• Chickasaw: okloshi' — group of people
• Chinese Cantonese: 部落 (bou6 lok6) — group of people
• Chinese Cantonese: 部族 (bou6 zuk6) — group of people
• Chinese: 部落 (zh-min-nan) — group of people
• Chinese Mandarin: 部落 (bùluò) — group of people
• Chinese Mandarin: 部族 (bùzú) — group of people
• Ngazidja Comorian: kaɓila — group of people
• Crimean Tatar: qabile — group of people
• Czech: kmen — group of people
• Czech: rod — group of people
• Danish: stamme — group of people
• Danish: folkestamme — group of people
• Dutch: stam — group of people
• Egyptian: w-H-i-i-t-A1*B1:Z2 (wḥyt) — group of people
• Esperanto: tribo — group of people
• Estonian: hõim — group of people
• Farefare: buuri — group of people
• Faroese: ættarbólkur — group of people
• Faroese: ættargrein — group of people
• Finnish: heimo — group of people
• French: tribu — group of people
• Saterland Frisian: Stamme — group of people
• Galician: tribo — group of people
• Georgian: ტომი (ṭomi) — group of people
• German: Stamm — group of people
• German: Volksstamm — group of people
• German: Sippe — group of people
• German: Volk — group of people
• German: Völkchen — group of people
• German: Völklein — group of people
• German: Sippschaft — group of people
• German: Tribus — group of people
• German: Völkerschaft — group of people
• Greek: φύλο (fýlo) — group of people
• Greek: φυλή (fylí) — group of people
• Ancient Greek: φυλή (phulḗ) — group of people
• Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט (shévet) — group of people
• Hindi: जनजाति (janjāti) — group of people
• Hungarian: törzs — group of people
• Icelandic: ættkvísl — group of people
• Ido: tribuo — group of people
• Indonesian: suku — group of people
• Indonesian: suku bangsa — group of people
• Ingush: тукхам (tuqam) — group of people
• Interlingua: tribo — group of people
• Irish: treibh — group of people
• Italian: tribù — group of people
• Japanese: 部族 (buzoku) — group of people
• Japanese: 民族 (minzoku) — group of people
• Kazakh: тайпа (taipa) — group of people
• Kazakh: ұлыс (ūlys) — group of people
• Khmer: កុលសម័្ពន្ធ (kolsampŏən) — group of people
• Korean: 겨레 (gyeore) — group of people
• Korean: 부족 (bujok) — group of people
• Korean: 민족 (minjok) — group of people
• Kumyk: эл (el) — group of people
• Northern Kurdish: eşîr — group of people
• Northern Kurdish: qebîle — group of people
• Kyrgyz: уруу (uruu) — group of people
• Kyrgyz: тукум (tukum) — group of people
• Kyrgyz: эл (el) — group of people
• Lao: ຊົນເຜົ່າ (son phao) — group of people
• Lao: ເຜົ່າ (phao) — group of people
• Latgalian: patauta — group of people
• Latin: tribus — group of people
• Latvian: cilts — group of people
• Lithuanian: gentis — group of people
• Macedonian: племе (pleme) — group of people
• Malay: suku — group of people
• Malay: puak — group of people
• Manchu: ᠠᡳᠮᠠᠨ (aiman) — group of people
• Manchu: ᠠᡳᠮᠠᠨ ᡥᠣᡴᡳ (aiman hoki) — group of people
• Māori: iwi — group of people
• Māori: mātāwaka — group of people
• Marshallese: bwij — group of people
• Mongolian: овог (ovog) — group of people
• Mongolian: аймаг (ajmag) — group of people
• Moore: buudu — group of people
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵇⴱⵉⵍ (aqbil) — group of people
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⵇⴱⵉⵍⵜ (taqbilt) — group of people
• Nandi: em — group of people
• Norwegian Bokmål: stamme — group of people
• Norwegian Bokmål: folkestamme — group of people
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stamme — group of people
• Norwegian Nynorsk: folkestamme — group of people
• Occitan: tribú — group of people
• Odia: ଜନଜାତି (janajāti) — group of people
• Old English: þēod — group of people
• Pashto: قبيله (qabila) — group of people
• Dari: قَبِیلَه (qabīla) — group of people
• Dari: عَشِیرَه (ašīra) — group of people
• Dari: قَوْم (qawm) — group of people
• Iranian Persian: قَبیلِه (ġabile) — group of people
• Iranian Persian: عَشیرِه (ašire) — group of people
• Iranian Persian: زَنْد (zand) — group of people
• Iranian Persian: قُوْم (ġowm) — group of people
• Polish: plemię — group of people
• Polish: ród — group of people
• Portuguese: tribo — group of people
• Punjabi: ਕਬੀਲਾ (kabīlā) — group of people
• Punjabi: قَبِیلَہ (qabīlah) — group of people
• Romanian: trib — group of people
• Russian: пле́мя (plémja) — group of people
• Russian: род (rod) — group of people
• Scottish Gaelic: cinneadh — group of people
• Scottish Gaelic: seòrsa — group of people
• Scottish Gaelic: sliochd — group of people
• Scottish Gaelic: treubh — group of people
• Serbo-Croatian: пле̏ме — group of people
• Serbo-Croatian: plȅme — group of people
• Sinhalese: ගෝත්ර (gōtra) — group of people
• Slovak: kmeň — group of people
• Slovak: rod — group of people
• Slovene: pleme — group of people
• Somali: qabiil — group of people
• Southern Altai: аймак (aymak) — group of people
• Spanish: tribu — group of people
• Sudovian: gintu — group of people
• Swahili: kabila — group of people
• Swedish: stam — group of people
• Tagalog: tribo — group of people
• Tajik: қабила (qabila) — group of people
• Tajik: қавм (qavm) — group of people
• Tajik: ашира (ašira) — group of people
• Tatar: кабилә (qäbilä) — group of people
• Telugu: తెగ (tega) — group of people
• Thai: เผ่า (pào) — group of people
• Thai: ตระกูล (dtrà-guun) — group of people
• Tibetan: སྡེ་རིགས — group of people
• Tlingit: ḵwáan — group of people
• Turkish: boy — group of people
• Turkish: kabile — group of people
• Turkmen: taýpa — group of people
• Ukrainian: пле́м'я (plémʺja) — group of people
• Ukrainian: рід (rid) — group of people
• Unami: lakeit — group of people
• Urdu: قَبِیلَہ (qabīla) — group of people
• Urdu: قَوم (qaum) — group of people
• Urdu: عَشِیرَہ ('aśīra) — group of people
• Uyghur: قوۋم (qowm) — group of people
• Uyghur: قەبىلە (qebile) — group of people
• Uzbek: qabila — group of people
• Vietnamese: bộ lạc — group of people
• Vietnamese: bộ tộc — group of people
• Volapük: tribüt — group of people
• Volapük: tribütil — group of people
• Volapük: pöpatribüt — group of people
• Walloon: tribu — group of people
• Welsh: llwyth — group of people
• Yiddish: שבֿט (sheyvet) — group of people
• Zazaki: eşîr — group of people
• Afrikaans: genusgroep — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Arabic: قَبِيلَة (qabīla) — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Azerbaijani: triba — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Finnish: tribus — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• German: Tribus — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Greek: φύλο (fýlo) — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Hungarian: nemzetség — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Hungarian: nemzetségcsoport — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Latin: tribus — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Russian: триба (triba) — taxonomy: hierarchical rank between family and genus
• Swahili: kabila — collective noun (see at the relevant animal entry)