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单词 manchua
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manchuan.

Forms: 1600s manchooa, 1600s–1800s manchua, 1700s munchua, 1800s manché.
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese manchua.
Etymology: < Portuguese manchua (early 16th cent.) < Malayalam mañcu, variant of mañci.Compare Italian manciue (1663 in the passage translated in quot. 1665; the form mancina also occurs there, rendered as mancion in Havers's translation). The 19th-cent. form manché apparently represents a direct English transcription of Malayalam mañci.
Obsolete.
A large flat-bottomed boat with one mast, used in south-west India for landing cargoes.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > types of regional vessel > in India
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1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India iv. 102 Boats, which they call Mancive, going with twenty..Oars, onely differing from the Almadies, in that the Mancive have a large cover'd room in the poop.]
a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1919) III. i. xxxv. 205 Manchooas or small vessells of recreation, used by the Portugalls here.
1679 R. Keigwin Let. 18 Oct. in H. Yule Diary W. Hedges (1888) II. p. clxxxiv I commanded the Shibbars and Manchuas to keepe a little a head of me.
1737 Treaty King of Benure & E. India Co. in W. Logan Coll. Treaties Malabar (1891) I. 31 All ships and vessels..as well as the Munchuas appertaining to the Company's Officers.
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Manché, an East Indian boat navigating the Malabar coast, with masts raking forward.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India I. i. x. 237 Manché of Calicut. A boat used on the Malabar coast, having a flat bottom, rendering it suitable for crossing the bars at the mouths of rivers.
1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell tr. G. Correa Lendas da India in Hobson-Jobson 420/1 So he made ready two manchuas, and one night got into the house of the King, and stole from him the most beautiful woman that he had.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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