/khubu
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Name in Khoekhoe or Nama
/khubu
/khuwu-b
//koom
/khuwub
ǀkhupub
Name in Nǀuu
ka ǁqhama (pl)
ǁqhama (sing)
Name in C1 Hie or Hiet∫ware or Masarwa
go
//xamee
Name in C2 Naron or //Aikwe
Igo:ba
Name in N1 //K''au-//en or Auen
!go:ba
‘/gãĩ, _gari
Name in N2 !kun or Ku or Kung
/xeru
hoa
Name in S2 //Ŋ !ke
⎺//k’wa:
Name in S4b Ki /hazi
si k’ai
si’kai
si’ai
Name in S6 /Nu //en
/k’wa:
//go:de
Alternative Title
Orycteropus afer
Title
Antbear
Name in Afrikaans
Aardvark
erdvark
Contained In
4.4.1
Identifier
31
comment
Producing the name of the antbear as ‘the one who digs. Nienaber (1963:204) documented for Old Cape Khoikhoi dialects from the various earliest sources the common names for this animal as k’ehou (Witsen 1691:223)
k~ihou (Kolbe 1708:431) and ^-goup (Valentyn 1705: 107b), also !kxuwu-b, //koom. kχuwu-b and kχubu-s
from Korana. in Zulu as isambane and isimbamgodi. In other Nguni, as well as Sotho languages it is indicated as sambane or isambane. in Shangaan as xombana. in Venda it is
thagalu
thagalu
in Tswana and Northern Sotho it is called thakadu
in Lozi takalo
in the Yei language it is ungengu
and in Nama and Damara it is /khuwub.
Spatial Coverage
Koeboegas that was translated as Aardvarkvlakte, valley or plains of many antbear. Obobogorab is the name of a farm 200 km north of Upington, named after the antbear and means place where the antbear digs for water. Beervlei in the Western Cape, as a translated Afrikaans name of Seahre Valley.
Is Part Of
The hoofed mammals: non-ruminants
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