different between quirt vs sjambok

English

Etymology

From Spanish cuerda (“cord”), or Mexican Spanish cuarta (“whip”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kw??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kw?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

quirt (plural quirts)

1. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
   • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito

     He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.

   • He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt.

   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter I:

     […] when the young man whirled his horse, “hazed” Jupiter in circles and belaboured him with a rawhide quirt, […] He ceased his cavortings […]

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin (2001), page 96:

     She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.

   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:

     He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt.

Translations

Verb

quirt (third-person singular simple present quirts, present participle quirting, simple past and past participle quirted)

1. To strike with a quirt.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

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