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Nubian, a. and n.|ˈnjuːbɪən|
[ad. med.L. Nūbiān-us, of f. med.L. Nūbia, f. L. Nūbæ, Gr. νοῦβαι, the name of the people.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining or belonging to the country of Nubia.
1727–46Thomson Summer 819 Down the Nubian rocks..he pours his urn. 1790Bruce Trav. IV. viii. x. 523 What figure the Nubian breed would make in point of fleetness is very doubtful. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXII. 558/1 The Nubian language..seems to bear no affinity to the Koptic or Ancient Egyptian. 1871P. Smith Anc. Hist. East vii. §12 (1881) 125 The Nubian eye, more elongated than the Egyptian, is still seen in the Shangallas.
2. In the specific names of certain animals.
1879Encycl. Brit. X. 709/2 The Nubian Goat, which is met with in Nubia, Upper Egypt, and Abyssinia. 1881Trans. Zool. Soc. II. 235 In the male Nubian Giraffes..the posterior horns..were less firmly attached to the skull than they were in the full-grown Cape Giraffes. 1896tr. Boas' Text-Bk. Zool. 517 The Domestic Cat..is apparently a descendant of the Nubian Wild Cat.
B. n.
†1. pl. An Eastern sect of Christians.
c1400Three Kings Cologne 146 Þes men be noȝt holde in so grete reuerence as þe Nubyans, for þei kepe noȝt þe feith so trewlich as þei do.
2. A native of Nubia; a Nubian slave.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlvii. IV. 562 A wandering tribe of the Blemmyes or Nubians invaded his solitary prison. 1813Byron Giaour xv, Such is the tale his Nubians tell. 1836Brit. Cycl. Lit., Hist., etc. III. 143/1 The Nubians..have the thick lips..of the negro race. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 611/2 Ethnologically the modern Nubians are therefore to be considered as a very mixed people.
3. A Nubian horse.
1790Bruce Trav. IV. viii. x. 523 If beautiful and symmetrical parts, great size and strength,..can promise anything for a stallion, the Nubian is..the most eligible in the world.
4. The language spoken by the Nubians.
1855Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. 91 The languages spoken on the water-system of the Nile:—Coptic, Bishari, Nubian,..Amharic, &c.
5. A kind of black dress-material.
1899Daily News 8 Apr. 9/1 Some of the moirettes and the new Nubian make good substitutes. The latter is, however, only in black. |