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- Dictionarysjambok/ˈʃambɒk/
noun
- 1. (in South Africa) a long, stiff whip, originally made of rhinoceros hide.
verb
- 1. flog with a sjambok: "she was sjambokked because she was thought to have been involved in witchcraft"
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The sjambok ( / ˈʃæmbʌk, - bɒk /) [1] or litupa is a heavy leather whip. It is traditionally made from an adult hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide, but is also commonly made out of plastic .
Sjambok definition: (in southern Africa) a heavy whip, usually of rhinoceros hide.. See examples of SJAMBOK used in a sentence.
Definition of sjambok noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of 'sjambok' Word Frequency. sjambok in British English. (ˈʃæmbʌk , in South Africa -bɒk ) noun. 1. a heavy whip of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide. 2. a stiff synthetic version of this, used in crowd control. verb Word forms: -boks, -bokking, -bokked. 3. (transitive) to strike or beat with such a whip. Collins English Dictionary.
Definitions of 'sjambok' 1. in South Africa, a whip traditionally made of rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide. [...] 2. to strike or flog with a sjambok. [...] More. Conjugations of 'sjambok' present simple: I sjambok, you sjambok [...] past simple: I sjambokked, you sjambokked [...] past participle: sjambokked. More.
noun. sjam· bok. (ˈ)sham¦bäk, -¦bək. plural -s. southern Africa. : a heavy leather whip often of rhinoceros hide. Word History. Etymology. Afrikaans sambok, from Malay cambok large whip, from Hindi cābuk. Love words?
Noun. Singular: sjambok. Plural: sjamboks. Origin of Sjambok. From Afrikaans, from the Javanese cambuk, and as borrowed in Malay: modern Indonesian and Malay. Originally spelt in the colonial Dutch transliteration tscamboek.
