Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kaama

/ˈkɑːmə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kaa-ma
IPA: /ˈkɑːmə/

11

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The hartebeest.

Example Sentences

"For, in the morning one of the Hottentots found at some distance from our station, the remains of a kaama or hartebeest, which had been devoured by a lion [...]."
"Very great numbers of the large game, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, tsessébes, kamas or hartebeests, kokongs or gnus, pallahs, rhinoceroses, etc., congregated at some fountains near Kolobeng, and the trap called ‘hopo’ was constructed, in the lands adjacent, for their destruction."

Etymology

Borrowed from Tswana kgama.

Word Breakdown

Root: kgama

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈkɑːmə/

Inflected Forms

kaamas (plural) kama (alternative) khama (alternative)

Homonyms

cama

Questions

How do you pronounce kaama?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɑːmə/.
What does kaama mean?: The hartebeest.
Where does kaama come from?: Borrowed from Tswana kgama.

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