noun

• (in Sudan and neighbouring countries) a thorn fence fortifying a camp or village.

  ‘In desert regions, the corresponding form of field fortification is the zariba, an enclosure protected by thorn bushes.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In addition, separate, larger animal enclosures, known as zariba are also surrounded by fencing.’
  • ‘Just half-a-dozen tugs, and the impossible zariba was a gap and a scattered heap of brushwood.’