Tribal in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “tribal” in Hindi is जनजातीय, pronounced janajatiy — it is a adjective. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
relating to or characteristic of a tribe
From Latin tribālis. By surface analysis, tribe + -al, first attested in the 1630s. The specific adjectival sense under the defunct theory of recapitulation derives from tribal history as an overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.
Quick facts about “tribal”
Everything we know about this word at a glance.
Related Words
Explore more words like this one.