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Oraon|əʊˈrɑːɒn|
[Indian name, of undetermined origin.
The following are among numerous explanations of the meaning of the name: 1900 F. Hahn Kuruḵẖ Gram. p. iii, The Hindus, who are supposed having invented the name Urāō̃ or Orāō̃ for the Kuruḵẖ people, might have concluded that the whole nation was called by the name of this sept, i.e. Orgorā̃; this word means hawk or cunny bird, and educated Urāōs believe that the foreign designation Orāō̃ or Orā̃ is derived from this totemistic word.1906G. A. Grierson Linguistic Survey India IV. ii. 406 Hindūs say that the word ‘Orāō̃’ is simply the Indo-Aryan urāū, spendthrift, the name being an allusion to the alleged thriftless character of the people to whom it is applied. 1915S. C. Roy Orāons of Chōtā Nāgpur i. 14 The name [of a monster-king] Rāwan, pronounced, as some people do, with an arrested ‘O’ sound at the beginning gave us the present form ‘O-rāwan’ or Orāon. ]
(A member of) an aboriginal tribe, which calls itself Kurukh, dwelling in the state of Bihar in northern India; the Dravidian language of this tribe. Also attrib. or as adj.
1872E. T. Dalton Descriptive Ethnol. Bengal viii. i. 245 The Khurñkh or Orāons of Chútiá Nágpúr are the people best known in many parts of India as ‘Dhángars’, a word that from its apparent derivation (dang or dhang, a hill) may mean any hillmen... According to the traditions I have received from the most venerable and learned of my Oráon acquaintances, the tribe has gradually migrated from the western coast of India... Oráon appears to have been assigned to them as a nickname, possibly with reference to their many migrations and proneness to roam. 1892H. H. Risley Tribes & Castes Bengal: Ethnogr. Gloss. II. 138 Oráon, Uráon, Kunokh, Kunrukh, a Dravidian cultivating tribe of Chota Nagpur, classed on linguistic grounds as Dravidian, and supposed to be closely akin to the Málés of the Rájmahál hills. 1908[see Korku]. 1915, etc. [see Maler n. and a.]. 1917Encycl. Relig. & Ethics IX. 501/2 The Orāons..call themselves Khuṛñk or Kūṛukh, a Dravidian term of uncertain origin, connected by some with the word horo, ‘man’, or with kuruk, ‘a crier’, or one capable of speaking, in contradistinction to the other races, whose language is not intelligible to them... This word horo is probably the origin of the name Orāon. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 386 Kurukh, consisting of Kurukh or Orāōn in the western part of the Bengal Presidency and the neighbouring parts of the Central Provinces, and Malto in the Rajmahal Mountains of Bengal. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 224 Kurukh and Malto. The former, also termed Oraon, is used by 150,000 persons in the western ranges of the Chota Nagpur Hills, in the districts of Raigarh and Sambalpur. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 563/1 Speakers of Oraon number about 1,140,000, but in urban areas, and particularly among Christians, many Oraon speak Hindi as their mother tongue. |