| 释义 |
Luba, n. and a.|ˈluːbə|
Pl. Balouba, Baluba, BaLuba, Luba, or with -s.
[Bantu.
Forms with the Ba- plural class prefix are applied only to the people.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) a people inhabiting areas of southern Zaire, chiefly the Shaba province.
b. Either of the two languages (distinguished as Ciluba and Kiluba) spoken by sections of this population.
B. attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to the Luba or their languages.
[1857D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. & Res. S. Afr. xxiii. 458 Neither guns nor native traders are admitted into the country, the chief of Luba entertaining a dread of innovation.] 1883R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Lang. Afr. I. xi. 280 Mittu..is the name of a tribe whose language is spoken by a small group of independent tribes, Mittu, Madi, Abukeya, and Luba. 1919H. H. Johnston Compar. Stud. Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. ii. 25 Good-looking ‘negroid’ types may be encountered among the Zulus, the Becuana, the Hererw, the Alunda, Baluba, Manyuema, [etc.]. Ibid., Bantu languages are spoken by..the Assyrian-like Baluba and Busoñgw [etc.]. 1922Ibid. II. v. 109 The Luba-Lunda languages..must be regarded as associated with an ancient culture and a remarkable endemic civilization produced in South Central Congoland. 1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society i. 5 Verhulpen mentions how the razzias of the Lunda and Luba states swept the Central African area for slaves. 1972E. A. Nida Bk. 1000 Tongues 400/1 KiSonge is a Luba language, spoken by about half a million people..in southeastern Congo-Kinshasa... The people are sometimes known as the Western Kalebwe BaLuba. Their Bantu language is related to the other Luba tongues. 1984Times 10 Apr. 2/5 A Luba wood arrow rest in the form of a female figure with three incised projections springing from her head. 1992A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food (1993) i. 10 The Baloubas of Zaire use the bark of trees for cooking au plat. |