单词 | gurian |
释义 | Guriann.adj. A. n. One of a Caucasian race, inhabiting Tiflis, closely related to the Georgians. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Caucasus > [noun] Circassian1555 Svan1601 Mingrelian1613 Abkhaz1686 Abaza1693 Lezgin1728 Ossetian1794 Abkhazian1799 Adyghe1799 Ainu1811 Chechen1814 Ossete1814 Kabardian1824 Tat1834 Laz1836 Caucasian1843 Svanetian1854 Ossetin1869 Gurian1876 Avar1881 Ingush1902 Megrelian1961 Megrel1967 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 257/2 The Gurians, a small people occupying the strip of land between the Rion and the mountains on the south, which form the frontier between Russia and Turkey. 1882 R. Brown Peoples of World V. i. 22 Like all the Georgians, the Gurian is fond of music. 1906 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 3/1 The Gurians are the..most warlike..of the Georgians. 1932 W. E. D. Allen Hist. Georgian People xviii. 210 In Imereti Solomon the Great, after a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Turks and Gurians, had died recently in Kutais (23rd April, 1782). B. adj. Of or pertaining to this race, or the region in which they live. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of the Caucasus > [adjective] Circassian1638 Alan1705 Lezgin1780 Abkhaz1788 Mingrelian1788 Ossetin1788 Abaza1823 Lezgi1828 Ainua1837 Adyghe1847 Ossetic1850 Ossetian1854 Svanetian1854 Abkhazian1856 Avarian1875 Ossete1884 Ossetan1892 Kabardian1902 Gurian1932 1932 W. E. D. Allen Hist. Georgian People v. 50 Many more were the sea-ports, towns and castles of the Colchian-Lazic basin..inland to Petra, a Roman stronghold under the Gurian hills. 1932 W. E. D. Allen Hist. Georgian People xviii. 208 The debris of their army was cut to pieces in the Gurian forests. 1963 C. Toumanoff Stud. Christian Caucasian Hist. 269 The Imeretian house of Mik῾elaje (1850) and the Gurian house of T῾avdgirije (1850) appear to be of Bagratid..origin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.adj.1876 |
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