kobo, noun
- Forms:
- Also kobe.
- Plurals:
- kobos, koboes.
- Origin:
- Sotho, SetswanaShow more Sotho and Setswana.
obs.
Among the Sotho and Tswana: kaross sense 1.
1824 W.J. Burchell Trav. II.I may here remark that kaross and kobo are but two words for the same thing; the former belonging to the Hottentot, and the latter to the Sichuana, language.
1866 E.L. Price Jrnls (1956) 185The only thing in the shape of a shawl or kobo, was an old sheet — tho’ a bitter cold day.
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