zeriba

发音

/zəˈɹiːbə/

词形变化

zeribas 复数 zeribas zeribaed zeribaing zeribas 三单 zeribaing 现在分词 zeribaed 过去式 zeribaed 过去分词

别名

zereeba zareba zariba seriba sariba zerybeh zereba zareeba zerriba

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fence of the type once commonly improvised in northeastern Africa from thornbushes.

    历史

    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, 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.

  2. 2.

    An improvised stockade, particularly those similarly located and constructed.

    引申义
  3. 3.

    A camp of troops employing such an enclosure.

    引申义
  4. 4.

    Any wild and barbed barrier, evocative of a briar or thorn patch.

    引申义
v.
  1. 1.

    To erect or take refuge within a zeriba.

词源

Borrowed from Arabic زَرِيبَة (zarība, “pen, cattle pen”).

来源：wiktionary