ancestor

[US]/ˈænsestə(r)/
[UK]/ˈænsestər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. mrithi, mzazi, mbele.
Word Forms
Pluralancestors

Phrases & Collocations

ancestor worship

ibada ya jadi

Example Sentences

This machine is the ancestor of the modern computer.

Mashine hii ni mzaliwa wa kompyuta ya kisasa.

One of my ancestors was a great scholar.

Mmoja wa wahenga zangu alikuwa mwanasayansi mkuu.

My ancestors came from Italian.

Wahenga zangu walitoka Italia.

the rugs they make today remain faithful to their ancestors' methods.

Kikao wanachofanya leo kinabaki kuwa mwaminifu kwa mbinu za wahenga zao.

our sapient ancestors of 40,000 years ago.

Wahenga zetu wenye akili ya 40,000 miaka iliopita.

The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.

Dhambi za wahenga zilishangaziwa kwa wanaowafuata.

The custom of worshipping ancestors is prevalent among these people.

Kuzidiwa kwa wahenga ni kawaida kati ya watu hawa.

Man was evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.

Mwanadamu alibadilika kutoka kwa mzaliwa aliyeweza kuwa mti.

ancestors who were farmers;

Wahenga ambao walikuwa wakulima;

The builder of the manor house is a direct ancestor of the present owner.

Mwenezaji wa nyumba ya boma ni mzaliwa wa moja kwa moja wa mmiliki wa sasa.

he could trace his ancestors back to James the First.

Alwezaweza kufuatilia wahenga zake hadi James wa Kwanza.

The apical cell and basal cell act as the ancestor cells of frond and rhizoid.

Seli ya apical na seli ya basal hutenda kama seli za mzaliwa za frond na rhizoid.

The common ancestor of the glasswing is long extinct but the clade it belongs to is known as the clearwing clade.

Mzaliwa wa kawaida wa glasswing amezimwa kwa muda mrefu lakini clade anayokuwa nayo inajulikana kama clade ya clearwing.

It does not allow interception of events targeted to the capturer's ancestors, its siblings, or its sibling's descendants.

Hauruhusu kuzuia matukio yaliyokusudiwa kwa mabeseni wa mtu aliyekamata, ndugu zake, au wana wake wa ndugu zake.

The cognition of the villagers at Guanlin about the godship of Ancestor Spirit and Guardian Spirit has deep meaning.But their cognition of regarding Guanyu as the God of Wealth is larruping.

Uelewa wa wakazi wa Guanlin kuhusu uungu wa Roho ya Wazazi na Roho wa Ulinzi una maana ya kina. Lakini uelewa wao wa kumwonea Guanyu kama Mungu wa Utajiri ni larruping.

Perhaps 20 or more hominids (not all of them our ancestors) fill the gap between Lucy the australopithecine and modern humans.

Labda 20 au zaidi ya watu wenye nyundo (wasio wote wahenga zetu) hujaza pengo kati ya Lucy mwanainchi na binadamu wa kisasa.

The little bancha are listening to the legends of their ancestors' origins. Ironically, the carvings on the pillars are actually copied from Africa.

Bancha wadogo wanaskiliza hadithi za asili ya wahenga zao. Kwa ironiki, michoro kwenye nguzo zinalegwa kutoka Afrika.

The 23 million-year-old creature was not a direct ancestor of today's seals, sea lions and walruses, a group known collectively as pinnipeds.

Kiumbe wa miilioni 23 wa miaka haikuwa mzaliwa wa moja kwa moja wa hazina, simba wa bahari na walrus za leo, kikundi kinachojulikana kwa pamoja kama pinnipeds.

If a child of very quirt, home-loving parents and grandparents should display the love of travel and adventure that had characterized a sea-captain ancestor, it would be called a case of atavism.

Ikiwa mtoto wa wazazi na wazazi wa kupenda nyumbani na wazazi wangeonyesha upendo wa kusafiri na fursa kwamba ilivumbwa na mzaliwa wa kapteni wa bahari, itaitwa kesi ya atavism.

Real-world Examples

In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors.

Kwa mtindo huu walipigana na mababu waliosahau.

Source: The Call of the Wild

Some lessons, he said, can be learned from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

Baadhi ya masomo, alisema, yanaweza kujifunza kutoka kwa mababu zetu wasanii na wakusanya maji.

Source: VOA Standard May 2015 Collection

Natural selection rewarded our ancestors for collaboration, and for forming connections with each other.

Uchaguzi wa asili ulijaza mababu zetu kwa kushirikiana, na kwa kuunda uhusiano na kila mmoja.

Source: Popular Science Essays

It's one of your most important ancestors.

Huyu ni miongoni mwa mababu zako muhimu zaidi.

Source: Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology

Life has diversified enormously, but from a single common ancestor.

Uhai umebadilika sana, lakini kutoka kwa mzaliwa mmoja wa kawaida.

Source: Environment and Science

This cell became the ancestor of all animals on this planet.

Seli hii iliwaanza kuwa mzaliwa wa wanyama wote kwenye sayari hii.

Source: Kurzgesagt science animation

He said he saw " my ancestors and yours" in her image.

Alisema alimwona "mababu zangu na zako" katika picha yake.

Source: VOA Slow English - America

It was not a direct ancestor of the millipedes that live now.

Hiyo hakikuwa kioo cha moja kwa moja cha milipedes zinazoishi sasa.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

These animals last common ancestor lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

Mababu wa kawaida wa wanyama hawa waliondoka milioni miazo ya miaka iliyopita.

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

Instead, they were influenced by the art of the islanders' ancestors.

Badala yake, walioathiriwa na sanaa ya mababu wa wakazi wa kisiwa.

Source: VOA Slow English - Entertainment

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