forest oor Xhosa

forest

/ˈfɔɹ.əst/, /ˈfɒɹ.əst/, /ˈfɒrəst/, /ˈfɑɹ.əst/ werkwoord, naamwoord

A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.

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Ihlathi

dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area

A well-maintained cork forest offers proof that man can work in harmony with nature—harvesting its bounty without despoiling its riches.
Ihlathi lom-oki elinyanyekelwa kakuhle libubungqina bokuba abantu banako ukuzuza kwindalo ngaphandle kokuyitshabalalisa.

ihlathi

See how small a fire it takes to set a great forest ablaze!—Jas.
Hayi indlela omncinane ngayo umlilo ofunekayo ukutshisa ihlathi elikhulu gqitha!—Yak.

Forest

Forest, Guernsey

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Forest bushwillow
umDubu-wehlathi

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The corn, the coffee beans, the hen that laid the egg, and even the cow that produced the milk—all had their origin in the fauna and flora of the tropical forest.
Ingqolowa, ikofu, inkuku ebeke iqanda, kwanenkomo yobisi—zonke zivela kwizilo nakwizityalo zamahlathi akweleenjiko.

Meet Indonesia’s “Man of the Forest”
Khawubone “Umntu Wehlathi” WaseIndonesia

From the cloud forests of the Andes comes quinine, for fighting malaria; from the Amazon region, curare, used as a muscle relaxant in surgery; and from Madagascar, the rosy periwinkle, whose alkaloids dramatically increase the survival rate of many leukemia patients.
Kumahlathi asoloko enamafu aseAndes kufumaneka iquinine, enyanga isifo seengcongconi; kummandla weAmazon, icurare, esetyenziswa ekuthambiseni izihlunu xa kusenziwa utyando; yaye eMadagascar, intyantyambo ebomvu iperiwinkle, incindi yayo esindisa abaninzi abanesifo ileukemia.

When forests are destroyed, animals are robbed of homes, hiding places, and feeding and nesting sites.
Ukugawulwa kwamahlathi kubangela ukuba izilwanyana ziphulukane namakhaya, iindawo zokuzimela nezokutya.

Podocarpus National Park (Ecuador) preserves a region of Andean cloud forest that harbors a huge variety of fauna and flora —over 600 different birds and some 4,000 species of plants.
IPodocarpus National Park (e-Ecuador) ifumaneka kummandla wamahlathi afumileyo kwiintaba zeAndes ezinezilwanyana nezityalo ezininzi zasendle—iindidi zeentaka ezingaphezu kwama-600 nezityalo ezinokuba ngama-4 000.

Brown tree snakes have almost exterminated the forest birds in Guam
Inyoka enombala omdaka ehlala emithini izinqunqe phantse zonke iintaka zamahlathi aseGuam

They would also be courageous and strong like “a lion among the beasts of a forest.”
Yayiza kukhalipha ize yomelele “njengengonyama phakathi kwezilo zehlathi.”

Forests cover about 45 percent of the land.
Amahlathi eli lizwe agubungela ummandla omalunga nama-45 ekhulwini.

After the second world war, however, chain saws and bulldozers made it possible to clear-cut forests on a new scale.
Noko ke, emva kwemfazwe yehlabathi yesibini ukusetyenziswa kweesarha zombane kwenza kwaba lula ukugawula amahlathi.

The quetzal can be found in cloud forests at altitudes of between 4,000 and 10,000 feet [1,200 to 3,000 m].
Iquetzal inokufunyanwa kumahlathi aneengqimba zamafu aphakame kangangeemitha ezili-1 200 ukuya kwezingama-3 000 ukusuka elwandle.

Two special pioneers in a very isolated region spent two weeks on their bicycles to travel more than 450 miles [700 km] through deep sand and rain forest.
Oovulindlela abakhethekileyo ababini abahlala kummandla okwanti bachitha iiveki ezimbini behamba ngeebhayisikile umgama ongaphezu kweekhilomitha ezingama-700 entlabathini nakumahlathi ashinyeneyo.

In Bible times the westward slopes were thickly forested.
Ngamaxesha okubhalwa kweBhayibhile amathambeka ayo angasentshona ayenamahlathi ashinyeneyo.

That being so, what hope is there for conserving the immense diversity of life that is found in tropical rain forests?
Ekubeni kunjalo, ngaba likho ithemba ngezinto ezahlukahlukeneyo eziphila kumahlathi ashinyeneyo?

Instead, they found beautiful white-sand beaches beyond which soared dark-green mountains, lush with forests.
Kunoko, bafumana unxweme oluhle olunentlabathi emhlophe olwalungqonge ezo ntaba zishinyeneyo ngamahlathi.

The settlement of mosquito-infested rain-forest areas has stirred an outbreak of malaria in Brazil.
Abantu abahlala kwimimandla eneengcongconi ezininzi enamahlathi emvula ngabo ababangele ukwanda kwesifo seengcongconi eBrazil.

Our destination is the Paphos Forest, high in the Troodos mountain range on the island of Cyprus, where we hope to find the elusive mouflon.
Sasifuna ukuya kufika phezulu kwiHlathi ekuthiwa yiPaphos, eTroodos kwiintaba ezikwisiqithi saseCyprus, apho sasinethemba lokuba siza kuzibona iimouflon.

The monarch butterfly migrates up to 1,800 miles from Canada to a small patch of forest in Mexico
I-“monarch” ihamba umgama omalunga nama-3 000 eekhilomitha, isuka eKhanada iye kwihlathana laseMexico

We are only now beginning to appreciate how strange and splendid it is, how it catches the breath, the loveliest object afloat around the sun, enclosed in its own blue bubble of atmosphere, manufacturing and breathing its own oxygen, fixing its own nitrogen from the air into its own soil, generating its own weather at the surface of its rain forests, constructing its own carapace from living parts: chalk cliffs, coral reefs, fossils from earlier forms of life now covered by layers of new life meshed together around the globe.”
Kukhona ngoku siqalayo ukuyiqonda indlela omangalisa nomhle ngayo, indlela ochukumisa ngayo, uyingqukuva ebukekayo ejikeleza ilanga, ethiwe wambu ngesigqubuthelo esiluhlaza esingumoya ojikeleze umhlaba, uvelisa uze uphefumle ioksijen yawo, uzilungeselela ngokwawo initrojen uyisusa emoyeni uyithumele kumhlaba wawo, uyilawula ngokwawo imozulu ngamahlathi emvula, uzenzela uqweqwe ngezinto eziphilayo: amawa etshokwe, iingqaqa zekorale, izinto ezaziphila mandulo ngoku ezigqunywe ngumaleko wezinto ezintsha eziphilayo ezizalise umhlaba wonke.”

In the tropical rain forests of New Guinea and northern Australia, the paradise kingfisher commonly excavates a hole in a termite nest.
Kumahlathi ashinyeneyo aseNew Guinea nakumntla-ntshona weOstreliya uxomoyi obizwa ngokuba yiparadise kingfisher udla ngokumba umngxuma kwindlwane yeentubi.

In addition, the forest’s inhabitants know how to utilize these plants.
Ukongezelela, abemi abahlala kula mahlathi bayayazi indlela yokusebenzisa ezi zityalo.

According to the book The Forest, “as many as 1,350 creatures . . . may be found in an area a foot [30 cm] square and an inch [2.5 cm] deep, and that does not include the billions of microscopic organisms in every handful of earth.”
Ngokutsho kwencwadi ethi The Forest, “kummandla oziziskwesentimitha ezingama-30 ububanzi, oziisentimitha ezisisi-2,5 ubunzulu, kunokufumaneka izinto eziphilayo ezimalunga ne-1 350 yaye eli nani aliquki amawaka ezigidi ezinto eziphila emhlabeni ezingenakubonwa ngaphandle kwemikroskopu.”

Airborne Gardeners of the Tropical Rain Forest
Abalimi Ababhabhayo Abakumahlathi Ashinyeneyo

The forests of our planet are teeming with life, including species that have yet to be discovered by man.
Amahlathi akwesi sijikelezi-langa azele zizinto eziphilayo, kuquka izinto ezingekafunyaniswa ngabantu.

The religious cowards dragged her into a nearby forest and shot her.
Loo matyutyusi asithela ngonqulo amrhuqela kwihlathi elikufuphi aza amdubula.

Whether a forest could ever regain its former splendor would depend on the nearness of the replanted area to virgin rain forest.
Enoba ihlathi liya kuphinda libe lihle ngendlela ebeliyiyo ngaphambili kuya kuxhomekeka ekubeni likufuphi kangakanani kumahlathi ashinyeneyo angaphazanyiswanga.