Definition of Thembu in English:
Thembu
(also Tembu)
nounPlural Thembusˈtɛmbuː
A member of a Xhosa-speaking people originating in present-day KwaZulu-Natal and now living in the Transkei.
坦布人（起源于今夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省，现居住于特兰斯凯的科萨语民族）
Example sentencesExamples
- Only two protested at meetings in their own tribal areas - Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo of the Tembu and Paramount Chief Victor Poto of the Western Pondo.
- Broster noted that the Thembu were reluctant to sell beadwork.
- The last Paramount Chief of the Tembus, Jongolizwe Mtirara, died in July 1928, four months before Sabata Dalindyebo was born.
- All Thembus were free to come - and a great many did, on horseback or on foot.
- Four Clarke generations lived among the Thembu before Broster, as a young bride, moved to the village of Qebe in 1952 to run a family store.
- The king of the Tembus was told by a high court judge here yesterday that he would be treated like anyone else facing charges, regardless of who he was.
- Her later books lack the detail of her books on the Thembu.
adjectiveˈtɛmbuː
Relating to the Thembu.
与坦布人有关的
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- Here Tembu goalkeeper Andile Sakhile was magnificent.
- Born in Qunu, Transkei, on 18 July 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was descended from the Thembu royal lineage.
- The writings of Mandela often assert the rich and proud history of the Thembu monarchy.
- As Thembu men and women aged, their beadwork remained predominantly navy and white, but now contrasted with pink.
- There she studied Thembu traditions, developed a passion for beadwork, and collected and annotated local costumes that demonstrate how minutely beadwork mapped social identity within this Xhosa-speaking community.
- In 1910 he became the only African ever elected to a seat on the Cape Provincial Council (representing the Thembu people).
- A typical Thembu cultural village could be established, and a library or museum provided to showcase and market the historical and cultural heritage of the local communities.
- Broster's work provides detailed evidence of how status could be read from dress in Thembu society.
- And on this day, kings, queens and chiefs from those clans gather to honor a Thembu son with their symbol of bravery.
- Sheep-shearing was also often done by migrant Mfengu and Thembu men.
- Bereaved family members could not see their loved ones being buried as the Tembu custom forbids women from witnessing the burial of lightning victims.
- He was then cared for by his uncle, Jongintaba Dalindyebo, chief of the Thembu people.