English

Alternative forms

• zareba
• zereba

Noun

zariba ‎(plural zaribas)

1. (East Africa) A tall protective hedge, around a village or fortified camp.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.