| 释义 |
‖ rishta|riːʃˈtɑː|
Also rishtu, reshta.
[Tadzhik.]
A local name in part of the Soviet Union for the guinea-worm (Dracunculus medinensis), a common parasite of man and other mammals, and the disease which it produces.
1834A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara II. 180 Among the diseases of Bokhara, the most distressing is the guinea-worm, or Dracunculus, here called ‘rishtu’: it is confined to the city. The inhabitants believe that the disease arises from drinking the water of the cisterns in summer, when they become fetid and infested with animalculæ. 1885H. Lansdell Russ. Central Asia II. liii. 146 What I had seen and been warned of in Samarkand, made me specially fearful of the rishta, a well-known disease in Bokhara. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. July 472/2 The barber-surgeon trying to operate on a young man for ‘rishta’, that troublesome parasite which burrows into the skin. 1966E. Schuyler Turkistan iv. 82 The Sarts are not only attacked by the usual maladies..but they have besides two or three which are peculiar to the country... One of these is the reshta, or ‘Guinea-worm’. |