| 释义 |
Luo, n. and a.|ˈluːəʊ|
Also Luoh, Lwo.
A. n.
a. The name of an East African people in Kenya and the upper Nile valley; a member of this people.
b. The Nilotic language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Luo or their language.
[1905C. Eliot E. Afr. Protectorate viii. 148 Whereas the villages in the north are surrounded with mud walls, those of the Ja-luo are protected by a thick-set hedge of euphorbias and aloes.] 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 565/1 Jur, the Dinka name for a tribe of negroes of the upper Nile valley, whose real name is Luoh, or Lwo. 1942E. African Ann. 1941–2 17/1 The Luo are a Nilotic negro tribe of agriculturalists living in the hot fertile country east of Lake Victoria. 1957W. M. Hailey Afr. Survey (rev. ed.) iii. 98 There are language committees concerned with the Kikuyu and Luo languages and an increasing volume of vernacular literature is being produced. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo v. 85 A mixed horde of Kikuyu, Luo and one Turkana appeared armed with pangas. 1968New Scientist 12 Dec. 599/3 The Luo, the second largest tribe in Kenya after the Kikuyu. 1968Y. R. Chao Lang. & Symbolic Syst. 99 Dinka and Luo..have almost 1 million speakers each. 1969Listener 24 July 100/1 Mboya was the only Luo leader of stature still in the party hierarchy. 1970Guardian 6 June 9/6 Josphat shouted something in Luo which I did not hear. 1970Language XLVI. 402 Some of the so-called prefixing forms of Luo are almost isomorphic semantically with their suffixal counterparts in Tarascan. |