braid (of hair), plait, pigtail
scythe
spit (of land), sandbar
Xhosa (people)
Xhosa (language)
rolling, rumbling, roll (of thunder)
shallows, riffle, shoal, sandbar
Моя́ ло́дка наскочи́ла на песча́ную о́тмель.
My boat ran aground on a sandbar.
Песок, намываемый рекой, образует новую отмель.
The sand deposited by the river is forming a new sandbar.