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单词 indaba
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indaban.

Brit. /ɪnˈdɑːbə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈdɑbə/
Etymology: < Zulu in-daba subject, topic, matter, affair, business, doing, < nominal inflex in- + stem daba (plural izin-daba affairs, communications, news).
Originally: a Zulu or Xhosa tribal gathering, consultation, or council meeting; (later also) (South African) any conference, meeting, or discussion.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of
parliament?a1400
diet1471
symposiac1603
by-conference1625
guestling1629
sanhedrim1653
comitia1684
symposium1784
assembly1794
powwow1812
neighbourhood meeting1823
colloquium1861
congress1861
party conference1875
indaba1894
press conference1908
case conference1913
story conference1920
telemeeting1973
poster session1974
START1981
presser1988
1894 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Dec. 3/2 A message was therefore conveyed..to the King, inviting Umtassa to come in to an indaba at Umtali.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 5/1 They will then attack Gimgem's kraal, where the chief Ulimo is holding an indaba, or consultation.
1896 Daily News 31 Aug. 3/1 The Indunas, after the final indaba, returned to the hills with the professed intention of consulting their brethren.
1920 R. Y. Stormberg Mrs Pieter de Bruyn 63 We're having a last little indaba all together, and then Gwenno Cape-carts it back home.
1940 F. B. Young City of Gold 355 He saw, as a culmination of the British surrender, the indaba of native chiefs, to whom the High Commissioner..presented the Boer triumvirate as their new leaders.
1989 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 12 Nov. 28 Mme Danielle Mitterand, whose invitations to an indaba in Paris fluttered through selected South African mailboxes this week.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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