Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced.
Source: tatoeba (19990)
Tribal
Synonyms for "tribal" (8 found)
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10 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- قَبيلي adj (of or relating to tribes)
- قَبَلي adj (of or relating to tribes)
- قَبَلِيّ adj (of or relating to tribes)
Belarusian
1 entries- племянны́ adj (of or relating to tribes)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пле́менен adj (of or relating to tribes)
Catalan
2 entries- tribal adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribal adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
Dutch
3 entries- stam adj (of or relating to tribes)
- stammen adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribaal adj (of or relating to tribes)
Esperanto
1 entries- triba adj (of or relating to tribes)
French
1 entries- tribal adj (of or relating to tribes)
Galician
2 entries- tribal adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribal adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
German
1 entries- Stammes adj (of or relating to tribes)
Greek
2 entries- φυλετικός adj (of or relating to tribes)
- φυλετικός adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
Hebrew
1 entries- שִׁבְטִי adj (of or relating to tribes)
Hungarian
1 entries- törzsi adj (of or relating to tribes)
Italian
1 entries- tribale adj (of or relating to tribes)
Latin
3 entries- gentilicius adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribālis adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribālis adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
Macedonian
1 entries- племенски adj (of or relating to tribes)
Portuguese
2 entries- tribal adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribal adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
Romanian
2 entries- tribal adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribal adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
Russian
2 entries- племенно́й adj (of or relating to tribes)
- племенно́й adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- plȅmenskī adj (of or relating to tribes)
Spanish
2 entries- tribal adj (of or relating to tribes)
- tribal adj (based on or organized according to tribes)
Swedish
1 entries- stam adj (of or relating to tribes)
Ukrainian
1 entries- племінни́й adj (of or relating to tribes)
Volapük
1 entries- tribütik adj (of or relating to tribes)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The tribal wise man shared his knowledge with all the young.
Source: tatoeba (1529627)
Tattoos have tribal origins.
Source: tatoeba (2368484)
Are you still able to speak your tribal language?
Source: tatoeba (3268025)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.