单词 | dusun |
释义 | Dusunn.adj. A. n. 1. doosoon, dusun. In Malaysia, a village or settlement; (an area of) cultivated land. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > in countries other than Britain Dusun1783 quilombo1869 mura1876 compound1893 agroville1960 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cultivated land till-land1437 till-ridge1549 cultivation1757 wainage1810 khet1878 Dusun1914 1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 49 The doosoons or villages..are always situated on the banks of a river or lake. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 247 Each dúsun or village is governed by a dúpatí or head-man. 1914 Oxf. Survey Brit. Empire II. xii. 381 The Malay orchard, or ‘Dusun’, indeed, is a curious combination of the efforts of man and nature. 1964 J. C. Jackson in Wang Gungwu Malaysia xvii. 265 In more recent schemes the allocation has been 8 acres of rubber, 2 acres of dusun, and a ¼-acre house-lot. 2. a. (A member of) a Dyak people inhabiting the Malaysian state of Sabah (formerly North Borneo). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Borneo and Sarawak > [noun] Dusun1836 Punan1838 Kayan1846 Iban1911 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 188/2 In the interior [of Borneo] are the Kayan, the Dusun, the Marut, the Tataoeli, &c., but they are not farther known. 1858 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 2 347 The inhabitants of this region, the Dusuns, or, as they are also sometimes called by the Malays, Idäan, are, for the most part, a fine, well-made, and not unhandsome race. 1881 J. Hatton New Ceylon iii. 81 The interior of the country is inhabited by the descendants of the aboriginal population, called variously Muruts, Dusuns, or Ida'an. 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 73/2 The Dusuns are great gamblers. 1968 Encycl. Brit. III. 966/1 Other aboriginal groups to be noted are the Murut and a subdivision known as the Dusun of North Borneo. They are wet-rice cultivators. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 372/1 Some groups, such as the Melanaus of Sarawak and the Dusuns of Sabah, have abandoned the longhouse settlement form. b. The West Indonesian language spoken by the Dusun people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > Borneo Kayan1846 Dusun1922 Murut1939 1922 O. Rutter Brit. North Borneo iii. 64 He much appreciates your being able to say a word or two of Dusun and will then recognize you as a friend indeed. 1965 K. G. Tregonning Hist. Mod. Sabah iii. 32 Dusun-speaking descendants of Chinese produced sago and pepper. 1965 K. G. Tregonning Hist. Mod. Sabah ix. 176 Schools teaching Chinese and Dusun or Malay. 1972 Bk. of Thousand Tongues (rev. ed.) 110/2 Dusun, with Tagal, shows affinities with the Philippine tongues. B. adj. Of or relating to the Dusun people or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Borneo and Sarawak > [adjective] Kayan1846 Dusun1851 Murut1858 Punan1892 Iban1911 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > Austronesian > of Austronesian languages Formosan1650 Moluccan1700 Bugis1808 Tagalog1808 Murut1836 Indonesian1850 Lifu1852 Motuan1885 Buginese1897 Dusun1897 Pangasinan1904 Lifuan1917 Pilipino1936 Marshallese1945 Yami1953 Tolai1963 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > Austronesian > of Sundic languages Formosan1650 Batak1875 Dusun1897 1851 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 5 49 Dusun knife..used by the Dusuns or Hill Tribes. 1897 Jrnl. Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. July 2 The Dusun (Kadasan) language contains some very old forms of words. 1960 K. G. Tregonning N. Borneo i. 7 I was loaded..on to a small decrepit launch, along with..three Dusun porters. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 230/1 In Sabah..rural Dusun women coming as nurse trainees to the capital city discover that their ‘native law and custom’ does not apply. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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