单词 | manganja |
释义 | Manganjaadj.n. A. adj. (attributive). Of, relating to, or designating an African people mainly inhabiting southern Malawi, or their Bantu language. ΘΠ 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. ΘΠ 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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