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kaama

UK/ˈkɑːmə/

kaama noun: the hartebeest.

kaama: the hartebeest
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Noun

kaama (plural kaamas)

  1. (rare) The hartebeest.
    • 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 [...].1824, William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, volume 2
    • 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.1858, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

kaama meaning in Tamil

kaama in Tamil

தென் ஆப்பிரிக்க மான்வகை

Forms of kaama

pluralkaamas
alternative formkama
alternative formkhama

Origin of kaama

Borrowed from Tswana kgama.

Questions about kaama

What does kaama mean?
Kaama means the hartebeest.
What is kaama in Tamil?
Kaama in Tamil is தென் ஆப்பிரிக்க மான்வகை. See Kaama meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kaama?
Kaama is a noun.
How do you pronounce kaama?
Kaama is pronounced /ˈkɑːmə/ (UK).
What is the plural of kaama?
The plural of kaama is kaamas.

Words near kaama in the dictionary

  1. Kaag en Braassem
  2. kaak
  3. kaalgat
  4. Kaalhehuttaa
  5. Kaalhugemendhoo
  6. kaama
  7. kaamas
  8. kaamchor
  9. kaamchors
  10. Kaanapali
  11. Kaang

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kaama (page history and authors); kaama (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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