单词 | kachin |
释义 | Kachinn. A member of a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group inhabiting the mountainous regions of north-east Burma (Myanmar); its language group, which includes Chingpaw, Atsi, Maru, etc. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Burma > [adjective] Mon1808 Talaing1835 Kachin1892 Palaung1897 Wa1902 Nung1916 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Burma > [noun] > person Chin1873 Nung1878 Kachin1892 the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > Tibeto-Burman > Burmic > Kachin or Rawang Nung1878 Kachin1892 Rawang1934 1892 W. R. Winston Four Years Upper Burma 102 In the north of Burma..are found the Kachins, a warlike hill people. 1906 O. Hanson (title) A dictionary of the Kachin language. 1909 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India III. ii. (title) Specimens of the Bodo, Nāgā, and Kachin groups. 1925 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 864/1 The reiterated word accented in Kachin is most descriptive. 1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days xiv. 211 Producing two green pigeons from his Kachin bag. 1962 Listener 25 Oct. 646/1 Some of these hill peoples—such as the Karens, Kachins, and Chins—have a long tradition of feuding and fighting with the Burmese of the plains. 1963 C. Maxwell-Lefroy Land & People of Burma vii. 47 Warm green tea,..shyly handed to us by a pretty Kachin girl. 1970 F. S. V. Donnison Burma ii. 47 The Kachins are nine-tenths Animists and the rest Christians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1892 |
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