| 释义 |
Lunda, n. and a.|ˈlʌndə|
Pl. Balonda, Balunda, Lunda, and with -s.
[Bantu.
Forms with the Ba- plural class prefix are applied only to the people.]
A. n.
1. A member of a people inhabiting areas of eastern Angola, south-eastern Zaire, and northern Zambia.
1857D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. & Res. S. Afr. xv. 268 Two of the people called Balunda, or Balŏnda, came to see us in their little canoe. Ibid. 277 She thought that he would visit the Balonda more frequently afterwards, having the good excuse of going to see his wife. 1861F. T. Valdez Six Yrs. of Traveller's Life in W. Afr. II. v. 148 The Jaga..prevented the Lundas, or Cazembe people, from communicating with the Portuguese merchants. 1908H. H. Johnston George Grenfell & Congo i. xi. 194 Round him [sc. a person of Hima descent] a community would group itself... Thus..the kingdoms..of the Luba, Lunda, and other Bantu countries came into existence. 1936Discovery June 172/1 The area of the Western Bantu..includes the territory of considerable and highly organised kingdoms, such as the medieval kingdoms of the Kongo and the Balunda, and the later Bushongo Empire. 1960I. Cunnison tr. Gamitto's King Kazembe II. ii. 116 The pure descendants of the conquered chief are called Shila, and they live..quite isolated, and without any intercourse with the Lunda. 1989Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 560/3 Most Lunda live in savanna country intersected by belts of forest along the river.
2. The Bantu language of this people.
1883R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Lang. Afr. II. xii. 399 Lúnda,..is the central language of Africa South of the Equator, and is mentioned by travellers both from the East and West Coast. 1897A. J. Butler tr. Ratzel's Hist. Mankind II. 404 Here, Lunda will be spoken; there, pehaps only half a mile away, Kioko. 1945C. M. Doke Bantu 106 Lunda,..this is known as Ndembo or Lunda of Kalunda, and must be distinguished from Luunda of the Central zone. It is spoken to the southwest of the Luba region, on the eastern side of the Upper Kasai, mostly in Belgian Congo, but reaching into Angola and into Northern Rhodesia at the headwaters of the Kabompo River. 1977C. F. & F. M. Voegelin Classification & Index World's Lang. 59 Zone L is subdivided into Kaonde..Luba..Lunda..Nkoya..Pende..Songe. Altogether 3,500,000 speakers. Zaire, Zambia, extending into Angola.
B. attrib. passing into adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1911Encycl. Brit. III. 362/2 There is a treatise on the Lunda language of the south-western part of the Belgian Congo, in Portuguese, by Henrique de Carvalho. 1930C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. xiii. 13 The Lunda Empire traditionally originates in a Baluba hunter from the north-east, who with a band of followers settled among the far more numerous Balunda whose home is the highlands constituting eastern Angola and the south-west portion of the Congo. 1957V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society i. 2 Kanongecha's migration occurred at about the same time as the migrations of other Lunda leaders. 1973G. M. D. Howat Dict. World Hist. 905/2 This Luba-Lunda political and economic system..began to crumble in the mid-19th cent. when the pattern of trade was radically altered by the sudden growth of the ivory trade, which the Lunda were ill-equipped to master. 1989Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 561/2 Guerrilla warfare against the Congo Free State continued until 1909, when the Lunda leaders were captured and executed. |