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单词 dusun
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Dusunn.adj.

/ˈduːsən/
Etymology: < Malay dusun orchard, village.
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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n.adj.1783
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