muurkasn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪəkəs/, U.S.

/ˈmɪrkəs/, South African English

/ˈmɪəkəs/

Inflections: Plural muurkaste Brit.

/ˈmɪəkastə/, U.S.

/ˈmɪrˌkæstə/, South African English

/ˈmɪəkʌstə/.

Forms: 1900s– meerkuses (plural, irregular), 1900s– muurkas.

Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans muurkas.

Etymology: < Afrikaans muurkas < muur wall ( < Dutch muur , ultimately < classical Latin mūrus : see mure n.) + kas (plural kaste ) cupboard < Dutch kast cupboard (Middle Dutch caste ; probably < early modern German kasten , of uncertain origin: see chaton n.²). Compare Dutch muurkast cupboard built into (outside) wall (late 19th cent.).

South African.

Esp. in traditional Cape Dutch houses: a cupboard built into an interior wall, usually with wooden doors and shelves.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun]

aumbry1356

shelfc1440

armoryc1485

cupboard1530

armoire1571

amberc1625

tabern1657

dark-closet1726

almirah1788

cwtch1890

bahuta1916

muurkas1949

1949 L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon 198 The reception room, with its stinkwood muurkas and pieces of Delft.

1964 J. Meintjes Manor House 66 In the long dining room there were two muurkaste or built-in cabinets in black stinkwood with gabled tops.

1981 J. Kench Cape Dutch Homesteads 44 The stinkwood ‘muurkas’ to the right of the screen door is thought to have belonged to Huysing himself.

1985 Style (Johannesburg) Dec. 193 Young Cape Wine Farmers are..forever throwing open wildly old houses full of meerkuses and wakuses.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	muurkas
释义	muurkasn. Brit. /ˈmɪəkəs/, U.S. /ˈmɪrkəs/, South African English /ˈmɪəkəs/ Inflections: Plural muurkaste Brit. /ˈmɪəkastə/, U.S. /ˈmɪrˌkæstə/, South African English /ˈmɪəkʌstə/. Forms: 1900s– meerkuses (plural, irregular), 1900s– muurkas. Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans muurkas. Etymology: < Afrikaans muurkas < muur wall ( < Dutch muur , ultimately < classical Latin mūrus : see mure n.) + kas (plural kaste ) cupboard < Dutch kast cupboard (Middle Dutch caste ; probably < early modern German kasten , of uncertain origin: see chaton n.²). Compare Dutch muurkast cupboard built into (outside) wall (late 19th cent.). South African. Esp. in traditional Cape Dutch houses: a cupboard built into an interior wall, usually with wooden doors and shelves. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] aumbry1356 shelfc1440 armoryc1485 cupboard1530 armoire1571 amberc1625 tabern1657 dark-closet1726 almirah1788 cwtch1890 bahuta1916 muurkas1949 1949 L. G. Green In Land of Afternoon 198 The reception room, with its stinkwood muurkas and pieces of Delft. 1964 J. Meintjes Manor House 66 In the long dining room there were two muurkaste or built-in cabinets in black stinkwood with gabled tops. 1981 J. Kench Cape Dutch Homesteads 44 The stinkwood ‘muurkas’ to the right of the screen door is thought to have belonged to Huysing himself. 1985 Style (Johannesburg) Dec. 193 Young Cape Wine Farmers are..forever throwing open wildly old houses full of meerkuses and wakuses. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1949
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