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单词 manganja
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Manganjaadj.n.

Brit. /məˈŋandʒə/, U.S. /mæŋˈɡændʒə/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1800s– Manganja, 1800s– Mang'anja.
Origin: A borrowing from Manganja. Etymon: Manganja Manganja.
Etymology: < Manganja Manganja, self-designation (1616 in a Portuguese source), perhaps < Chewa ma- , plural class prefix + nyanja Nyanja n.
A. adj. (attributive).
Of, relating to, or designating an African people mainly inhabiting southern Malawi, or their Bantu language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [adjective] > Bantu peoples
Xhosa1812
Morolong1822
amaXhosa1824
Zulu1824
Sotho1827
amaZulu1828
Amapondo1830
African1832
Matabele1835
knob-nosed1838
Manganja1859
Pondo1872
Bapedi1878
Ovambo1897
Tsonga1907
Venda1913
Pedi1922
Nguni1929
Lobedu1937
Mosotho1955
1859 J. Kirk Let. 14 Feb. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1861) 31 285 The Shiré valley and adjacent country is inhabited by the ‘Manganja’ tribe.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi v. 123 The practice of bathing..we afterwards found to be common in other parts of the Manganja country.
1892 D. C. Scott (title) A cyclopaedic dictionary of the Mang'anja Language spoken in British Central Africa.
1933 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 63 2 As far back as 1616 we know that the Manganja and Anguru tribes were on the ground where they are, at least approximately, at this moment.
1998 Jrnl. S. Afr. Stud. 23 321 The Black Jesus cult first began to take shape in the Mang'anja society of the late sixteenth or early eventeenth century.
B. n.
A member of the Manganja people; (also) their Bantu language. Also (occasionally): = Nyanja n.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples > person
Kaffir1588
Zulu1824
Mantatee1833
Basotho1835
Mosothoa1838
knobnose1839
Manganja1859
the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages
Kaffir1820
Swahilese1833
Sesotho1846
Chagga1849
Kikuyu1849
Mitshi1854
Manganja1859
Bantu1866
Kavirondo1870
Luganda1876
Sotho1876
Fan1883
Gogo1883
Lunda1883
Nyamwezi1883
Kioko1884
Barotse1888
Ganda1891
Tumbuka1891
Chichewa1897
Bemba1902
Nyanja1902
Rwanda1902
Lingala1903
Sepedi1905
Ila1907
Lamba1907
Chewa1908
Venda1908
Ngoni1911
Munchi1913
Meru1921
Yao1924
Lozi1937
Nguni1939
Ndembu1945
Mwera1947
Sango1948
Ovambo1953
Sukuma1969
Tiv1976
1859 D. Livingstone Let. 12 May in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1861) 31 284 The land generally lay high, was cold, very fertile, and well peopled by Manganja.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi v. 108 The Manganja generally live in villages, each of which has its own headman.
1930 A. Hetherwick Dict. Nyanja Lang. p. v Not only in Nyasaland itself, but also in Northern and Southern Rhodesia..Mang'anja, or, as it is now called, Nyanja, has come to occupy the place of a lingua franca.
1959 Past & Present Apr. 75 Joseph Booth and John Chilembwe..went to evangelize among the Mang'anja.
1999 Afr. Stud. Rev. 42 90 Nyau Society members among Chewa, Mang'anja, and Yao construct..extraordinary animal masks.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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