Xhosa

//ˈkəʊ.sə//

Synonyms for "xhosa" (3 found)

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Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

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4 relation types

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2 entries

Related terms

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is a

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related to

6 entries

Translations

39 translations across 29 languages.

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Afrikaans

3 entries
  • Khosa noun (Xhosa language)
  • Xhosa noun (Xhosa language)
  • Xhosa noun (Xhosa people)

Albanian

1 entries
  • gjuha Xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Arabic

2 entries
  • الْكُوسِيَّة noun (Xhosa language)
  • كُوسِيُّون noun (Xhosa people)

Bengali

1 entries
  • কোসা noun (Xhosa people)

Breton

1 entries
  • Xhosaeg noun (Xhosa language)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • кхоса noun (Xhosa language)

Cherokee

1 entries
  • ᏠᏌ noun (Xhosa language)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 科薩語 /科萨语 noun (Xhosa language)

Chuvash

1 entries
  • коса чӗлхи noun (Xhosa language)

Dutch

1 entries
  • Xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Esperanto

3 entries
  • kosa lingvo noun (Xhosa language)
  • kosino noun (Xhosa people)
  • koso noun (Xhosa people)

Finnish

1 entries
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

French

2 entries
  • Xhosa noun (Xhosa people)
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Galician

1 entries
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Ido

1 entries
  • Xosa-linguo noun (Xhosa language)

Irish

1 entries
  • Cóisis noun (Xhosa language)

Italian

1 entries
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Japanese

1 entries
  • コサ語 noun (Xhosa language)

Korean

1 entries
  • 코사어 noun (Xhosa language)

Limburgish

1 entries
  • Xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Navajo

1 entries
  • Xhosa Dineʼé bizaad noun (Xhosa language)

Polish

1 entries
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)
  • xossa noun (Xhosa language)

Russian

1 entries
  • ко́са noun (Xhosa language)

Spanish

1 entries
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Swahili

2 entries
  • Kixhosa noun (Xhosa language)
  • Mxhosa noun (Xhosa people)

Swedish

2 entries
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa language)
  • xhosa noun (Xhosa people)

Xhosa

2 entries
  • amaXhosa noun (Xhosa people)
  • isiXhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Zulu

1 entries
  • isiXhosa noun (Xhosa language)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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You speak Xhosa well.

Source: tatoeba (1768230)

The Republic of South Africa’s official languages are: Afrikaans, English, Northern Sotho, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, and Zulu.

Source: tatoeba (9549710)

my father remained aloof from Christianity and instead reserved his own faith for the great spirit of the Xhosas, Qamata, the God of his fathers.

Source: wiktionary

In many Xhosa households, Wednesday is umngqusho day. It's the way we all grew up. Like Fridays in the Eastern Cape are always dumplings with meat day.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.