单词 | dinka |
释义 | Dinkan.adj. A. n. A member of a Sudanese people or their language; collective, this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [noun] Nigritian1738 Sudan1799 Sudanese1826 Dinka1861 Sudani1874 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 Nilote1893 Nilotic1906 1861 J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Afr. xx. 345 The Dinka, an extensive negro tribe, inhabit the eastern interior. 1861 J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Afr. xx. 360 The Djibba speak a different language from the Dinkas. 1873 E. E. Frewer tr. G. Schweinfurth Heart of Afr. II. 501 List of mammalia observed during my travels..with their native names... Dinka: Agohk. Dyoor: Abworro. Bongo: Gumbi. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 317/1 (note) 1 The same expression ‘jet black’ is applied by Schweinfurth to the Upper-Nilotic Shilluks, Nuers, and Dinkas. 1900 Daily News 27 Feb. 5/7 Four days before reaching Bahr el Jaraf I was attacked by Dinkas. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 562/1 The native Dinka never hurries unless he is being hunted. 1949 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Struct. 86 Marriages of adopted Dinka into collateral major, and even minor, lineages undoubtedly take place sometimes. 1968 Y. R. Chao Lang. & Symbolic Syst. 99 Dinka and Luo..have almost 1 million speakers each. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [adjective] Nilotic1653 Nigritian1757 Sudanian1837 Sudanese1853 Dinka1861 1861 J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Afr. xx. 348 Five Dinka children. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 561/2 Wol explained in the Dinka dialect the reason and object of my sudden visit. 1949 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Struct. 86 The adoption of a Dinka boy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.adj.1861 |
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