单词 | khasi |
释义 | Khasin. 1. A member of a people of north-eastern India and Bangladesh, living mainly in the Indian states of Meghalaya and Assam and speaking the Khasi language; (also) an Indo-Aryan people inhabiting the hills of Kumaon and Garhwal; a member of one of these peoples. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [noun] > Mongol peoples Khasi1789 Purum1859 the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [noun] > other peoples of India Mewati1788 Khasi1789 Kol1795 Yusufzai1815 Bhil1823 Meo1832 Dogra1834 Mundari1872 Shin1875 the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [noun] > Mongol peoples > person Newar1811 Lepcha1819 Limbu1819 Magar1819 Rong1840 Khasi1882 1789 in W. S. Seton-Karr & H. D. Sandeman Select. Calcutta Gaz. (1865) II. 218 We understand the Cossyahs, who inhabit the hills to the north-westward of Sylhet, have committed some very daring acts of violence. 1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 24 Nov. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xvii. 479 The Khasiyah nation pretend to be all Rajpoots of the highest caste. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 295/1 The true Khas can be distinguished from the Laos only by the lobe of the ear. 1907 P. R. T. Gurdon Khasis 11 We can..suppose that the Khasis are an offshoot of the Mon people of Further India. 1918 Trans. Scottish Ecclesiol. Soc. 5 230 A barbaric tribe of the Khasias burn their dead and raise to their honour menhirs... If a Khasian is in distress of any kind, he prays to some deceased ancestor. 1926 Other Lands July 151/2 There are six Khasis, five Nepalis, and two Lepchas from the Darjeeling Hills. 1936 Discovery July 205/2 The Khasis and Syntengs are an isolated group of the great Mon-Khmer family. 1937 H. W. Tilman Ascent of Nanda Devi i. 7 The..Khasiyas, a race of a caste lower than the Brahmans or Rajputs..yet generally allowed to be also immigrants from an Aryan source, adore..the mountain god Siva. 2. The language spoken by this people, belonging to the Mon-Khmer group of the Austro-Asiatic family. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > specific Austroasiatic Annamitic1820 Annamite1843 Annamese1848 Santal1852 Munda1854 Khasi1855 Santalic1875 Mon-Khmer1887 Kol1903 Korku1906 Temiar1933 Mon1939 Vietnamese1947 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austroasiatic > Mon-Khmer > northern languages Khasi1855 Palaung1892 Wa1974 1855 W. Pryse Introd. Khasia Lang. p. iii The Khasia or Cossyah is the dialect of a small tribe, reckoning..somewhat under 200,000 souls. 1855 W. Pryse Introd. Khasia Lang. p. vi It is hoped that the majority of the Khasia words..will be found in the Vocabulary. 1911 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 830/2 In language 27,272,895 of the inhabitants [of Eastern Bengal and Assam] speak Bengali, 1,349,784 speak Assamese, and the remainder Hindi and various hill dialects, Manipuri, Bodo, Khasi and Garo. 1967 D. S. Parlett Short Dict. Lang. 73 Khasi,..a dialect apparently transitional between Mon-Khmer and Munda language types. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1789 |
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