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The name seems to have originated as sambok in Indonesia, where it was the name of a wooden rod for punishing slaves. When Malayan slaves were imported to South Africa, the instrument and its name were imported with them, the material was changed to hide, and the name was finally incorporated into the Afrikaans, spelled as sjambok.
A strip of the beast’s hide is cut and carved into a strip 3 to 5 foot long, tapering from about 1 inch thick at the handle to about 3/8” at the tip.
This strip is then rolled until reaching a near circular form. The resulting whip is as flexible as whalebone, and very tough.
A plastic version was made for the South African Police, and used for riot control.
When a similar instrument is made from another animal’s hide, it is called a litupa.
The instrument is also known as kiboko (the name for the hippopotamus) in Kiswahili and as mnigolo in Malinke. In the Portuguese African colonies it was called a chicote, from a Portuguese word for rod or whip.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sjambok."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Scourge | Blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Namibia | On April 9, NDF soldiers arrested Johannes Sondaha Kampumburu in Rundu on suspicion of collaborating with UNITA; during his detention, he reportedly was hung upside down by his legs and beat with a rawhide whip called a sjambok. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SJAMBOK" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SJAMBOK" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SJAMBOK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrah me kamzhik (flagellate, flog, lash), kamzhik (discipline, flagellum, horsewhip, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, switch, whip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | korbács (cat, lash, scourge, thong, whip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amboksjay южно-африканская плеть, стегать бичом. (various references) bičevati šembokom, šembok. (various references) kamçılamak (flagellate, flog, hop up, horsewhip, lash, leather, scourge, slash, swinge, tan, welt, whip, whip up), kırbaçlamak (colt, flagellate, flog, horsewhip, lash, scourge, slash, swinge, swish, thong, welt, whip). (various references) roi da tê giác. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SJAMBOK": sjamboked, sjamboking, sjamboks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-j-k-m-o-s" | |
-2 letters: ambos, amoks, jambs, makos, sambo. | |
-3 letters: abos, ambo, amok, bams, bask, boas, bosk, jabs, jamb, jams, jobs, kabs, koas, kobs, mako, mask, moas, mobs, mosk, oaks, okas, soak, soja, soma. | |
-4 letters: abo, abs, ask, bam, bas, boa, bos, jab, jam, job, kab, kas, koa, kob, kos, mas, moa, mob, mos, oak, oka, oms. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-j-k-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: sjamboks. | |
+2 letters: sjamboked. | |
+3 letters: sjamboking. | |
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