单词 | almoravid |
释义 | Almoravidn.adj. A. n. Chiefly in plural. A member of an Islamic dynasty that ruled northern Africa and much of Spain in the eleventh cent. before being overthrown by the Almohads in 1147. Cf. Almohad n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > member of specific Muslim Almohad1600 Almoravid1612 Abbasid1664 Hashemite1697 Umayyad1758 Marinid1894 Saudi1933 1612 E. Grimeston tr. L. T. de Mayerne Gen. Hist. Spaine viii. xviii. 262 The Almorauides of Affrike staied not long before they past the seas, to defend their new conquest in Spaine..but they were repulsed by Cid. 1676 G. Philips Present State Tangier 11 Under his Successors of the three Races, (the Almoravides, the Almohades, and lastly the Merines) Tangier was their chief Port for Spain. 1708 T. Taylor tr. J. Basnage Hist. Jews vii. v. 607/1 The greatest revolution happen'd by the Family of the Morabethons, whom Mariana calls Almoravides. 1792 R. Heron tr. J. P. C. de Florian Gonsalvo of Cordova I. 72 Africa was at last subjected to the family of the Almoravides, a powerful tribe, originally from Egypt. 1811 T. Bourke Conc. Hist. Moors in Spain III. iii. 136 Tomru dethroned the Almoravide without much difficulty, and..commenced in his person the new dynasty of the Almohades. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XIV. 347/1 The only surviving male branch of the Almoravides. 1974 F. Gabrieli in J. Schacht & C. E. Bosworth Legacy of Islam (ed. 2) ii. 67 An ethnic and cultural foundation that still allows us to call ‘Arab’ the great states of the Islamic Middle Ages, like..the Almoravids and the Almohads. 2005 C. Lowney Vanished World (2006) viii. 105 Muslim Spain's sophisticated princes didn't think much of the Almoravids, and the distaste was distinctly mutual. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Almoravids or their empire. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [adjective] > specific Muslim Almohad1620 Umayyad1758 Abbasid1760 Almoravid1760 Hashemite1788 Saudi1933 Saudite1949 Saadian1951 Marinid1952 1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XVIII. 25 Several of the Almoravide governors, taking the advantage of the wars.., erected their governments into independent principalities. 1854 A. L. Kœppen World in Middle Ages II. 692 While the Almoravid Princes of Spain were..uniting all their forces against the Castilian and Aragonese kings in the north, they neglected their western provinces. 1891 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 708/2 The later years of the Almoravid rule were very oppressive to the Moslems of Spain. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vii. 88 The account of the Arab geographer al-Bakri of Cordoba, written shortly before the Almoravid invasion. 2000 C. Hanger World Food: Morocco 13 The existence of a rich..Moroccan court—through the rulers of the Almoravid, Almohad, Merenid and Saadian dynasties—was crucial to the development of Moroccan cuisine as it exists today. Derivatives almoraˈvidic adj. ΚΠ 1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XVIII. i. 24 He [sc. Brahem] was no less industrious in extirpating all the unhappy remains of the Almoravidic race. 1968 A. Train tr. M. Bataille City of Fools 251 Almoravidic nomads from Marrakech with blue veils, and Frankish crusaders from Poitiers wearing iron helmets met there. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1612 |
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