单词 | nabi |
释义 | nabin.adj. 1. A person inspired to speak the word of God, according to ancient Semitic tradition; a prophet; spec. (in Judaism and Christianity) one of the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament); (in Islam) a prophet within an established religion.In Islam, distinguished from a major prophet or messenger (Arabic rasūl) who brings a new revelation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > prophecy > [noun] > person > Hebrew nabi1874 1765 W. Dodd in Bible with Comm. I. sig. Rv/2 [Note on Genesis 20:7] The Hebrew נביא nebia, signifies a person that speaks something in an eminent and extraordinary manner.] 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist iii. iii. 194 The true Nabi..is the mouthpiece, the interpreter of God to man. 1877 A. Milroy tr. A. Kuenen Prophets & Prophecy in Israel iii. 63 The Nabi is, and cannot but be, an improvisatore. 1885 T. P. Hughes Dict. Islam 475/2 According to Muhammadan writers a nabi is anyone directly inspired by God. 1900 W. W. Skeat Malay Magic 99 Of the prophets (Nabi) there are an indefinite number. 1922 T. R. Glover Progress in Relig. to Christian Era v. 124 We find the first king of Israel powerfully affected by the Nebi‘im associated with Jehovah. 1948 M. Buber Hasidism iii. 120 It is the nabi's duty to let the speech spoken between deity and humanity fulfil itself. 1998 SRA Jrnl. 30 Summer–Fall 32/2 In the Semitic tradition, these were the nabi; in Greek culture, the charismatoi; in primal societies, the shaman or berdache. 2. Art. In form Nabi. A member of a group of French post-Impressionist painters who followed the artistic theories of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). Also attributive or as adj.The group was formed in 1888 and included Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, and Paul Sérusier. Their first exhibition was held in 1892. Their work in this period is characterized by an interest in distortion and the expressive use of colour and pattern. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > nabism > artist nabi1931 1931 Countess de Lauzanne tr. A. Basler & C. Kunstler Post-Impressionists xi. 52 All the ‘Nabis’, all the ‘enflammés’ who left the Jullian [sic] Academy, were attracted by the theories of..Paul Gauguin. 1963 L. Hanson & E. Hanson Post-Impressionists xi. 277 They were..nicknamed the Nabis..because most of them wore beards, some were Jews and all were desperately earnest. 1971 tr. W. Verkade in J. Russell Vuillard 85 One day Sérusier said to me: ‘Let's go and see the Nabi, Denis, at Saint-Germain.’ 1986 C. Lloyd in C. Lloyd & R. Thomson Impressionist Drawings 11 [The Académie Julian] was influential in the formation of the Nabis and the Fauves. 1999 Times 23 June 31/5 Ker Xavier Roussel..is usually counted among the so-called Nabi school of painters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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