Meaning

4 senses
  1. Of or relating to tribes.

    social order through tribal law

    Stammes-

    племенно́йplemennój

    племінни́йpleminnýj

    relating to or characteristic of a tribe

  2. Based on or organized according to tribes.

    a tribal society

    племенно́йplemennój

  3. (historical, rare)Phylogenic.

    tribal history

  4. Incorporating designs or styles typical of an indigenous people.

    tribal techno music

    a purse with a tribal design

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Algeria is not a tribal nation.

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  2. He must build a tribal school.

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  3. This is not a tribal state.

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  4. Tom has tribal tattoos on his thighs.

    ruУ Тома на бёдрах племенные татуировки.

    deTom hat Stammestätowierungen auf den Oberschenkeln.

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  5. Ethnic religions are common among tribal peoples.

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Translations

7 languages
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Origin

From Latin tribālis. By surface analysis, tribe + -al, first attested in the 1630s. The sp

From Latin tribālis. By surface analysis, tribe + -al, first attested in the 1630s. The specific adjectival sense under the defunct theory of recapitulation derives from tribal history as an overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.

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