suku — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ancestry noun The line of ancestors a person descends from; one's family origins or heritage.
- birth noun The event of being born; the moment a baby or animal comes into the world.
- domain noun A field or area of activity, knowledge, or control.
- family noun A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, especially parents and their children.
- gender noun The state of being male, female, or another identity, often understood as bound up with social roles and personal identity, distinct from biological sex.
- generation noun All the people born and living at around the same time, seen as a group.
- genus noun A biological classification rank grouping closely related species, sitting below family and above species.
- house noun A building where people live, typically a single family.
- kin noun One's relatives, considered together as a group.
- people noun Human beings in general, or the men, women and children of a particular group, place or nation.
- strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.
Senses
suku is used for these senses in English:
- ancestry A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended.
- birth (uncountable) The circumstances of one's background, ancestry, or upbringing.
- domain A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- extended family A family consisting of parents and children, along with additional members such as grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.
- family A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- gender Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) [from 20th c.]
- generation (now, US, dialectal) Race, family; breed. [from 14th c.]
- gens (Ancient Rome, historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.
birth — full definition
- noun The event of being born; the moment a baby or animal comes into the world.
- noun The start or origin of something.
- verb To give birth to, or to bring something into existence.