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zareeba
English
Noun
zareeba (plural zareebas)
- Alternative spelling of zariba
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zeriba
English
Alternative forms
- zareba (particularly in figurative uses)
- seriba, sariba
- zerybeh
- zereba, zareeba, zerriba
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (zar?ba, “pen, cattle pen”).
Noun
zeriba (plural zeribas)
- (historical) A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.
- 1849, Charles William O’Reilly (translator), Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile by Ferdinand Werne, London: Richard Bentley, Volume II, Chapter 5, p. 112,[1]
- On the left shore two neat farmyards shew themselves in a shining seriba of reeds, the stalks of which are connected very regularly with each other, but perhaps only afford resistance to tame animals.
- 1895, A. H. Keane, Africa, Volume I, North Africa, (Stanford’s Compendium of Geography and Travel), London: Edward Stanford, Chapter 5, p. 245, footnote 1,[2]
- In Arabic zeriba means any kind of rough and ready fenced enclosure; hence the expression “zeriba country” applied by some geographers to the northern slope of the Nile-Congo divide, where the Arab traders and slave-hunters had founded numerous palisaded stations long before the establishment of the Egyptian administration in that region.
- 1849, Charles William O’Reilly (translator), Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile by Ferdinand Werne, London: Richard Bentley, Volume II, Chapter 5, p. 112,[1]
- (by extension) An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.
- 1884, The Times, 11 March, 1884, p. 5,
- The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) advanced this morning to Baker Pasha’s zariba.
- 1884, The Times, 11 March, 1884, p. 5,
- (by extension) A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.
- 1887, The Times, 9 April, 1887, p. 5,
- […] forming a zariba, or square, to resist cavalry.
- 1887, The Times, 9 April, 1887, p. 5,
- (by extension) Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.
- 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, “Deep Waters” in Collier’s, Volume 45, 28 May, 1910, p. 18,[4]
- Once you had passed the initial zareba of fruit stands, souvenir stands, ice-cream stands, and the lair of the enthusiast whose aim in life it was to sell you picture postal-cards, and had won through to the long walk where the seats were, you were practically alone with Nature.
- 1940, Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, London: Vintage, 2001, Chapter 2,
- […] a small withered soldier sat by the prison door with a gun between his knees and the shadows of the palms pointed at him like a zareba of sabres.
- 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, London: Collins, Chapter 5,[5]
- The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
- 1961, P. G. Wodehouse, Ice in Bedroom, New York: Simon & Schuster, Chapter 7, p. 52,
- Owing to his obiter dicta having to be filtered through a zareba of white hair, it was not always easy to catch exactly what Mr. Cornelius said.
- 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, “Deep Waters” in Collier’s, Volume 45, 28 May, 1910, p. 18,[4]
Verb
zeriba (third-person singular simple present zeribas, present participle zeribaing, simple past and past participle zeribaed)
- To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.
- 1885, R. F. T. Gascoigne, “To Within a Mile of Khartoum,” The Nineteenth Century, No. 101, July 1885, p. 89,[6]
- […] the Brigadier ordered the force to zereba on the best position that was near.
- 1911, “Somaliland” in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th ed., Vol. 25, p. 382,[7]
- On the 2nd of June a small force, zeribaed under Captain Malcolm McNeill, was attacked by the mullah’s followers but repulsed after desperate fighting.
- 1885, R. F. T. Gascoigne, “To Within a Mile of Khartoum,” The Nineteenth Century, No. 101, July 1885, p. 89,[6]
Further reading
- Zeriba in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.
Anagrams
- braize
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (zar?ba, “pen, cattle pen”).
Noun
zeriba f (plural zeribe)
- zeriba (African type of fence)
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