| 释义 |
Wa, n. (and a.)|wɑː|
[Native name.]
a. (Any of) a group of hill-dwelling peoples of eastern Burma and southwestern Yunnan; a member of one of these peoples.
b. Their (Mon Khmer) language or dialect. Also attrib. or as adj.
1860F. Mason Burmah (ed. 2) ii. 69 There is a wild tribe called Lawa on the mountains between the Irrawaddy and the Meinan... There is a small settlement of them..in..Amherst; there formerly was one in Tavoy, where the Karens called them Wa. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 519/2 It [sc. the Burmese state Mang Lön] is the chief state of the Vü or Wa tribes. 1911Ibid. XXVIII. 223/2 They are popularly divided into Wild Was and Tame Was. The Wild Was are remarkable as the best authenticated instance of head hunters in the British Empire. 1942[see Palaung n. and a.] 1966D. Wilson Quarter of Mankind xvi. 211 They [sc. Communist maps] acknowledged the Burmese claim to one piece of territory depicted in Peking as Chinese, but they took an entirely new bite out of the Wa territory shared between the two. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IV. 272/1 Ethnolinguistic Groups in China..Wa (Kawa). |