different between knout vs sjambok

English

Etymology

Via French, from Russian ???? (knut),from Old East Slavic ????? (knut?), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [n??t]
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

knout (plural knouts)

1. A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.

Translations

Verb

knout (third-person singular simple present knouts, present participle knouting, simple past and past participle knouted)

1. To flog or beat with a knout.
   • 1992, Will Self, Cock and Bull:

     Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

French

Etymology

From Russian ???? (knut), from Old East Slavic ????? (knut?), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”). Doublet of nœud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knut/

Noun

knout m (plural knouts)

1. knout, scourge
2. a flogging administered with such a multiple whip; a condemnation to suffer it

Descendants

• ? English: knout

Further reading

• “knout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• (noun): sambock, sambok, shambock, shambok, shambuck, sjambock
• (verb): shambock, shambok, sjambock, sjamboke

Etymology

From Afrikaans sjambok, from Dutch sjambok, from Javanese cambuk, and as borrowed in Malay: modern Indonesian and Malay, ultimately from Persian ????? (?âbok). Originally spelt in the colonial Dutch transliteration tscamboek. The term was imported by VOC officials, Dutch merchants, the Maardijkers (Maluku (Moluccan) freemen and burghers), and Inlanders (Javanese and other modern Indonesian slaves and political exiles expelled to Dutch South Africa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmb?k/

Noun

sjambok (plural sjamboks)

1. (South Africa) A stout whip, especially made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, chapter II, pp. 25-6,

     He learnt that he was a slave, in spite of all the petty airs he might assume, a slave shackled to a yoke, to be scolded when he lagged, flogged when he rebelled with the sjambok of the modern driver, Threat of the Sack.

   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, page 113:

     Several accusations had been brought in against her and every time she'd denied them she had been beaten with a sjambok.

See also

• knout
• quirt
• whip
• cambuk

Verb

sjambok (third-person singular simple present sjamboks, present participle sjambokking, simple past and past participle sjambokked)

1. (transitive) To whip with a sjambok; to horsewhip.

References

• 1989-1990, South African Department of Information (Apartheid era), South Africa 1989-90: official yearbook of the Republic of South Africa, volume 15 (1989; ?ISBN and ?ISBN). Page 74: "bobotie, kiaal, sjambok, sosatie from Malay".
• 1983, Robert Ross, Cape of Torments: slavery and resistance in South Africa. International library of anthropology (Routledge, 1983; ?ISBN and ?ISBN)
• 1978, Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English
• 1971, Roy Lewis, Yvonne Foy, Painting Africa white: the human side of British colonialism (Universe Books, 1971, ?ISBN and ?ISBN)
• 1883, JKW Quarles van Ufford, Koloniale kroniek - De Economist (Springer, [1], [2])

Anagrams

• Kambojs, jamboks

Dutch

Alternative forms

• sambok, tjambok

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese cambuk or Malay cambuk, ultimately from Persian ????? (?âbok).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?b?k/
• Hyphenation: sjam?bok
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

sjambok f (plural sjambokken, diminutive sjambokje n)

1. A sjambok, a long heavy whip.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sjambok
  • English: sjambok