| 释义 |
‖ sidi|ˈsiːdiː|
Forms: 7 seedi, syddy, 7–8 siddy, 8 siddee, 9 siddhee, seddee, sidi, sídí, seedy, seide.
[a. Urdū sīdī, Marāthī siddhī, ad. Arab. sayyidī ‘my lord’: see Sayyid.]
Originally, a title of honour given in Western India to African Muslims holding high positions under the kings of the Deccan; in later use, an African, a Negro. Now chiefly in comb. sidi-boy.
1615W. Bedwell Arab. Trudgman, Seedi, a name or title of honour, yet attributed vnto meane persons. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & Persia 147 An Hobsy, or Arabian Coffery (they being preferred here to Chief Employments, which they enter on by the name of Siddies). Ibid. 168 Syddies. 1757Grose Voy. E. Indies 91 These [islands] were in the hands formerly of Angria, and the Siddies, or Moors. 1761Cambridge War in India 216 The Mogul appointed the Siddee, who was chief of a colony of Coffrees, to be his Admiral. 1813J. Forbes Oriental Mem. III. 167 Among the attendants of the Cambay nabob..are several Abyssinian and Caffree slaves, called by way of courtesy Seddees, or Master. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 197 A long narrow dirty street, crowded with spectators, among whom might be noticed a great number of Sidis or blacks.
Comb.1867G. E. Clark Seven Years of Sailor's Life viii. 86, I wandered off alone to the ‘Seide’ boys village of fishermen. 1890Pall Mall G. 21 Aug. 3/1 Where Malay jostles Chinaman{ddd}and Arab elbows seedy-boy. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xiv. 233 This form of the disease..among the Lascars and sidi-boys of steamers trading to India. |