Nubiann.adj.

Brit.

/ˈnjuːbɪən/, U.S.

/ˈn(j)ubiən/

Forms: Middle English nuben, Middle English Nubyan, Middle English Nubyen, Middle English Nywbyan, Middle English–1500s Nubien, 1600s– Nubian.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nubien; Latin Nubianus.

Etymology: Partly < Middle French, French nubien (noun) member of an early Eastern Christian sect (1356), Nubian language (1584), inhabitant of Nubia (1307), (adjective) of or relating to Nubia (1560) < Nubie Nubia (early 13th cent.) + -en -an suffix, and partly < post-classical Latin Nubianus (noun) member of an early Eastern Christian sect (1335), inhabitant of Nubia (late 12th or early 13th cent.) < Nubia (Arabic bilād al-nūba ) a region and any of several former kingdoms in north-eastern Africa ( < classical Latin Nūbae , plural of the name of the people (compare Hellenistic Greek Νοῦβαι , plural) + -ia -ia suffix¹) + -anus -an suffix. Compare Arabic nūbī (adjective and noun) Nubian. With sense A. 6 compare French nubienne a kind of fabric (late 19th cent.).

A. n.

†1. A member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Nubians > [noun]

Nubian?a1425

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 81 (MED) Þer ben oþere þat men clepen Nestoryenes, And summe Arryenes, Summe Nubyenes..all þeise han manye articles of oure feyth, & to othere þei ben varyaunt.

c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 146 (MED) Þes men be noȝt holde in so grete reuerence as þe Nubyans [v.r. Nywbyanus], for þei kepe noȝt þe feiþ so trewlich as þei do.

2. A native or inhabitant of Nubia, a region and any of several former kingdoms in north-eastern Africa, or a descendant of such a person; †a slave from this region (obsolete).In some quots., spec. a native or inhabitant of Lower Nubia in the Nile Valley; also called Nile Nubian or Nuba (cf. Nuba n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun]

Numidian?a1425

Nubianc1450

Massylian1606

catadupes1607

Mauritanian1607

Marmarican1627

Niam-Niam1861

Watusi1863

Zande1873

Twa1878

Tutsi1929

Cyrenaican1942

Ubangi1953

Chadian1960

Saharan1970

Sahrawi1976

c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 873 (MED) Than came Baldezynz with thronge To reskue there here lorde, And nubens with hem amonge And Turkes by one accorde.

?1520 tr. Hetoum Lytell Cronycle sig. G1^v The King of Nubiens, which be Christen men and were conuerted to the fayth of Christ by Saynt Thomas in the holy lande of Etyope.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 148 The Nubiens..sleaing a farre with venim and with dartes.

1607 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (new ed.) xxxviii. xlvii If they Arabians, that can bide no paine, Or if they Nubians be, the case is cleare.

1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant Pref. p. iii The Nubians, a little before this Massacre.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlvii. 562 A wandering tribe of the Blemmyes or Nubians invaded his solitary prison.

1813 Ld. Byron Giaour 10 Such is the tale his Nubians tell.

1836 Brit. Cycl. Lit. III. 143/1 The Nubians..have the thick lips..of the negro race.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 611/2 Ethnologically the modern Nubians are therefore to be considered as a very mixed people.

1936 Discovery June 170/1 The Nubians (not to be confused with the Nuba of Kordofan).

1981 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 44 266 The three sons..represent arabized Nubians or other indigenous peoples.

1991 Afr. Affairs 90 560 The Nubians in Uganda have fallen victim to the usual way of analyzing the structure and development of Ugandan society mainly in ethnic and religious terms.

3. A language of Nubia; (in modern use) any of several eastern Sudanic Nilo-Saharan languages spoken by the Nubians.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [noun] > Sudanic

Nubian1605

Sudanic1817

Lugbara1921

Uduk1932

Pokot1951

the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Egyptian > Coptic

Nubian1605

Coptic1711

Bohairic1830

Fayumic1902

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 422 Speake Spanish, French, Italian, Nubian.

1849 E. Lear Jrnls. Landscape Painter in Albania (1852) xii. 289 A jargon of Turkish, Italian, Greek and Nubian.

1855 H. Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. 91 The languages spoken on the water-system of the Nile:—Coptic, Bishari, Nubian,..Amharic, &c.

1911 F. L. Griffith Karanòg vii. 83 While Meroitic was the official language for writing, Nubian was the mother-tongue of Lower Nubia.

1956 Man 56 100/2 The conversation is apt to change from Arabic to Nubian and back again with no effort and with equal fluency in both languages.

1992 Word 43 127 There are considerable differences among Nubian women in their use of Nubian or Arabic.

†4. A Nubian horse. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds

Frison?a1400

jennet1463

garron1540

Galloway1598

ghoonta1613

Goonhilly1640

forester1712

yabu1753

Highland pony1768

Narragansett pacer1777

Suffolk punch1784

Nubian1790

Cleveland bay1796

cob1818

Conestoga1824

marsh tacky1826

Narragansett1826

Russian pony1829

Clydesdale1831

Turkoman1831

Morgan1841

tarpan1841

Waler1849

Percheron1855

Canuck1860

Anglo-Arabian1864

Anglo-Arab1869

Belgium1878

Palouse1881

standardbred1888

Belgium draught horse1889

saddlebred1891

Timor pony1895

Haflinger1899

Argentine1901

Belgian1907

palomino1914

Appaloosa1924

Trakehner1926

Lipizzaner1928

Tennessee walking horse1938

Bhotia1939

cremello1944

Akhal-Teke1947

Palouse horse1947

Tennessee walker1960

Falabella1977

1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile IV. viii. x. 523 If beautiful and symmetrical parts, great size and strength,..can promise anything for a stallion, the Nubian is..the most eligible in the world.

5. = Nubian goat n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > other types of

goateOE

ibex1607

whidaw goat1781

shawl-goat1793

jaal-goat1838

Nubian1879

Nubian goat1879

Toggenburg1886

Anglo-Nubian1898

Saanen1908

walia1932

1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 708/1 The following are the chief domestic breeds [of goat], possessing distinct characteristics:—the Common Goat, the Maltese, the Syrian,..the Nubian or Egyptian, and the Dwarf Goat of Guinea.

1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry iv. 74/2 In the USA, the Nubian is the most popular of all breeds with around 28 per cent of all registrations.

2000 Harrowsmith Country Life Dec. 78 The Nubian is a heavy, all-purpose goat, more useful for meat and hide than milk.

†6. A kind of black dress material. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > of specific colour

Paris black1533

Pimlico1685

Nubian1899

1899 Daily News 8 Apr. 9/1 Some of the moirettes and the new Nubian make good substitutes. The latter is, however, only in black.

B. adj.

a. Of or relating to the region of Nubia, its inhabitants, or their languages.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [adjective]

Nubian1600

Somali1809

Meroitic1852

Zande1873

Somalian1884

Ubangi1915

Twa1951

Chadian1960

Watusi1960

1600 E. Wilkinson Thameseidos ii. l. 63 Within this darke, but pleasant mansion Much like the Nubian Niger, which doth slide In one place vnder earth of no man spide.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 201 Then th'Vnicorne, th'Hyena tearing-tombes, Swift Mantiger, and Nubian Cephus comes.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xiv. 545 The Nubian King.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 88 Down the Nubian Rocks..he [sc. the Nile] pours his Urn.

a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXII. 558/1 The Nubian language..seems to bear no affinity to the Koptic or Ancient Egyptian.

1871 P. Smith Anc. Hist. East vii. §12 125 The Nubian eye, more elongated than the Egyptian, is still seen in the Shangallas.

1937 A. Christie Death on Nile vi. 82 The Nubian boatmen cast the sail loose.

1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxvii. 186 We bowed across five feet of Nubian dirt.

1990 Raritan Spring 43 The majestic Nubian bouab in his white robes and turban..held open the door of the lift.

b. Originally U.S. Of or relating to African heritage; black.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] > relating to

Moresco?1551

blacka1652

Negro1653

negroish1746

niggerish1825

darkie1839

dinge1848

niggery1855

Negrotic1863

negritic1870

Nigritic1889

melanoderm1926

soul1960

Nubian1971

1971 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 63/4 Now the public relations man will be putting his efforts into his own company, Nubian Press... The first book to be published will be ‘The Nubian Baby Book’, the purpose of which will be to familiarize black tots with the Afro-American heritage.

1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 251 I'd just positioned myself to pull a beautiful Nubian princess with a smile like sunshine, when Froggy bust my set by putting a Malibu and pineapple juice in my hand.

2002 Essence (Electronic ed.) Jan. 73 When women of African ancestry..measure our Nubian gifts against the mark set by media-canonized, surgically altered and airbrushed European beauties, we slap our ancestral mothers' face and wound our soul.

2. Designating animals of a kind found in Nubia; designating species of animals native to Nubia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [adjective] > plants or animals of a particular region > from specified region

EnglisheOE

Arabian1580

Scotch1610

West Indian1625

Scots1728

Creole1758

Californian1785

Nubian1790

Lusitanian1907

pantropical1913

1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile IV. viii. x. 523 What figure the Nubian breed would make in point of fleetness is very doubtful.

1858 A. M. Redfield Zoöl. Sci. 167 The Egyptian and Nubian horses are still among the handsomest, but Arabia bears the palm in producing the most beautiful breed of horses.

1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 517 The Domestic Cat..is apparently a descendant of the Nubian Wild Cat.

1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xx. 233 Our South African (Struthi australis) and Nubian ostriches occupy a paddock with only an unheated shed for shelter.

1973 Sci. Amer. June 40/2 Other mammals that appear to be breeding well in captivity..include..the Nubian wild ass.

Compounds

Nubian giraffe n. a giraffe of the nominate subspecies Giraffa camelopardis camelopardis, of East Africa.

ΚΠ

1881 Trans. Zool. Soc. 2 235 In the male Nubian Giraffes..the posterior horns..were less firmly attached to the skull than they were in the full-grown Cape Giraffes.

1921 Biometrika 13 354 Camelopardalis giraffa (Nubian giraffe).

1979 Science 18 May 755 (caption) Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis, Nubian giraffe, from the Sudan.

Nubian goat n. a breed of goat distinguished by a convex profile, large pendulous ears, short hair, and long legs, probably of both North African and Indian origin; a goat of this breed; (now also) an Anglo-Nubian goat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > other types of

goateOE

ibex1607

whidaw goat1781

shawl-goat1793

jaal-goat1838

Nubian1879

Nubian goat1879

Toggenburg1886

Anglo-Nubian1898

Saanen1908

walia1932

1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 709/2 The Nubian Goat, which is met with in Nubia, Upper Egypt, and Abyssinia.

1979 B. Tudor Drawn from New Eng. x. 90 (caption) Sometimes she is even allowed to ride on a wether goat with Tasha standing by... Left, Tasha with a prize Nubian goat.

1983 P. St. Pierre Smith & Other Events. Tales of Chilcotin (1985) 53 A piece of bottom land beside Soap Lake Creek, which was big enough to nourish a Nubian goat and a Newfoundland dog but not much more.

Nubian woodpecker n. an East African woodpecker, Campethera nubica, which has a spotted breast, a yellowish tail, and (in the male) a red crown.

ΚΠ

1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 180 The Nubian woodpecker is in length seven inches and a half.

1963 J. G. Williams Field Guide Birds E. & Central Afr. 173 The Golden-tailed Woodpecker..differs from the Nubian Woodpecker in having black streaks, not spots, on the underparts.

1993 B. L. Monroe & C. G. Sibley World Checklist Birds 22 Campethera nubica, Nubian Woodpecker.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nubian
释义	Nubiann.adj. Brit. /ˈnjuːbɪən/, U.S. /ˈn(j)ubiən/ Forms: Middle English nuben, Middle English Nubyan, Middle English Nubyen, Middle English Nywbyan, Middle English–1500s Nubien, 1600s– Nubian. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nubien; Latin Nubianus. Etymology: Partly < Middle French, French nubien (noun) member of an early Eastern Christian sect (1356), Nubian language (1584), inhabitant of Nubia (1307), (adjective) of or relating to Nubia (1560) < Nubie Nubia (early 13th cent.) + -en -an suffix, and partly < post-classical Latin Nubianus (noun) member of an early Eastern Christian sect (1335), inhabitant of Nubia (late 12th or early 13th cent.) < Nubia (Arabic bilād al-nūba ) a region and any of several former kingdoms in north-eastern Africa ( < classical Latin Nūbae , plural of the name of the people (compare Hellenistic Greek Νοῦβαι , plural) + -ia -ia suffix¹) + -anus -an suffix. Compare Arabic nūbī (adjective and noun) Nubian. With sense A. 6 compare French nubienne a kind of fabric (late 19th cent.). A. n. †1. A member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Nubians > [noun] Nubian?a1425 ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 81 (MED) Þer ben oþere þat men clepen Nestoryenes, And summe Arryenes, Summe Nubyenes..all þeise han manye articles of oure feyth, & to othere þei ben varyaunt. c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 146 (MED) Þes men be noȝt holde in so grete reuerence as þe Nubyans [v.r. Nywbyanus], for þei kepe noȝt þe feiþ so trewlich as þei do. 2. A native or inhabitant of Nubia, a region and any of several former kingdoms in north-eastern Africa, or a descendant of such a person; †a slave from this region (obsolete).In some quots., spec. a native or inhabitant of Lower Nubia in the Nile Valley; also called Nile Nubian or Nuba (cf. Nuba n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun] Numidian?a1425 Nubianc1450 Massylian1606 catadupes1607 Mauritanian1607 Marmarican1627 Niam-Niam1861 Watusi1863 Zande1873 Twa1878 Tutsi1929 Cyrenaican1942 Ubangi1953 Chadian1960 Saharan1970 Sahrawi1976 c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) 873 (MED) Than came Baldezynz with thronge To reskue there here lorde, And nubens with hem amonge And Turkes by one accorde. ?1520 tr. Hetoum Lytell Cronycle sig. G1^v The King of Nubiens, which be Christen men and were conuerted to the fayth of Christ by Saynt Thomas in the holy lande of Etyope. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xvi. 148 The Nubiens..sleaing a farre with venim and with dartes. 1607 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (new ed.) xxxviii. xlvii If they Arabians, that can bide no paine, Or if they Nubians be, the case is cleare. 1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant Pref. p. iii The Nubians, a little before this Massacre. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlvii. 562 A wandering tribe of the Blemmyes or Nubians invaded his solitary prison. 1813 Ld. Byron Giaour 10 Such is the tale his Nubians tell. 1836 Brit. Cycl. Lit. III. 143/1 The Nubians..have the thick lips..of the negro race. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 611/2 Ethnologically the modern Nubians are therefore to be considered as a very mixed people. 1936 Discovery June 170/1 The Nubians (not to be confused with the Nuba of Kordofan). 1981 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 44 266 The three sons..represent arabized Nubians or other indigenous peoples. 1991 Afr. Affairs 90 560 The Nubians in Uganda have fallen victim to the usual way of analyzing the structure and development of Ugandan society mainly in ethnic and religious terms. 3. A language of Nubia; (in modern use) any of several eastern Sudanic Nilo-Saharan languages spoken by the Nubians. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [noun] > Sudanic Nubian1605 Sudanic1817 Lugbara1921 Uduk1932 Pokot1951 the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Egyptian > Coptic Nubian1605 Coptic1711 Bohairic1830 Fayumic1902 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 422 Speake Spanish, French, Italian, Nubian. 1849 E. Lear Jrnls. Landscape Painter in Albania (1852) xii. 289 A jargon of Turkish, Italian, Greek and Nubian. 1855 H. Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. 91 The languages spoken on the water-system of the Nile:—Coptic, Bishari, Nubian,..Amharic, &c. 1911 F. L. Griffith Karanòg vii. 83 While Meroitic was the official language for writing, Nubian was the mother-tongue of Lower Nubia. 1956 Man 56 100/2 The conversation is apt to change from Arabic to Nubian and back again with no effort and with equal fluency in both languages. 1992 Word 43 127 There are considerable differences among Nubian women in their use of Nubian or Arabic. †4. A Nubian horse. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds Frison?a1400 jennet1463 garron1540 Galloway1598 ghoonta1613 Goonhilly1640 forester1712 yabu1753 Highland pony1768 Narragansett pacer1777 Suffolk punch1784 Nubian1790 Cleveland bay1796 cob1818 Conestoga1824 marsh tacky1826 Narragansett1826 Russian pony1829 Clydesdale1831 Turkoman1831 Morgan1841 tarpan1841 Waler1849 Percheron1855 Canuck1860 Anglo-Arabian1864 Anglo-Arab1869 Belgium1878 Palouse1881 standardbred1888 Belgium draught horse1889 saddlebred1891 Timor pony1895 Haflinger1899 Argentine1901 Belgian1907 palomino1914 Appaloosa1924 Trakehner1926 Lipizzaner1928 Tennessee walking horse1938 Bhotia1939 cremello1944 Akhal-Teke1947 Palouse horse1947 Tennessee walker1960 Falabella1977 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile IV. viii. x. 523 If beautiful and symmetrical parts, great size and strength,..can promise anything for a stallion, the Nubian is..the most eligible in the world. 5. = Nubian goat n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > other types of goateOE ibex1607 whidaw goat1781 shawl-goat1793 jaal-goat1838 Nubian1879 Nubian goat1879 Toggenburg1886 Anglo-Nubian1898 Saanen1908 walia1932 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 708/1 The following are the chief domestic breeds [of goat], possessing distinct characteristics:—the Common Goat, the Maltese, the Syrian,..the Nubian or Egyptian, and the Dwarf Goat of Guinea. 1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry iv. 74/2 In the USA, the Nubian is the most popular of all breeds with around 28 per cent of all registrations. 2000 Harrowsmith Country Life Dec. 78 The Nubian is a heavy, all-purpose goat, more useful for meat and hide than milk. †6. A kind of black dress material. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > of specific colour Paris black1533 Pimlico1685 Nubian1899 1899 Daily News 8 Apr. 9/1 Some of the moirettes and the new Nubian make good substitutes. The latter is, however, only in black. B. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to the region of Nubia, its inhabitants, or their languages. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [adjective] Nubian1600 Somali1809 Meroitic1852 Zande1873 Somalian1884 Ubangi1915 Twa1951 Chadian1960 Watusi1960 1600 E. Wilkinson Thameseidos ii. l. 63 Within this darke, but pleasant mansion Much like the Nubian Niger, which doth slide In one place vnder earth of no man spide. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 201 Then th'Vnicorne, th'Hyena tearing-tombes, Swift Mantiger, and Nubian Cephus comes. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xiv. 545 The Nubian King. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 88 Down the Nubian Rocks..he [sc. the Nile] pours his Urn. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXII. 558/1 The Nubian language..seems to bear no affinity to the Koptic or Ancient Egyptian. 1871 P. Smith Anc. Hist. East vii. §12 125 The Nubian eye, more elongated than the Egyptian, is still seen in the Shangallas. 1937 A. Christie Death on Nile vi. 82 The Nubian boatmen cast the sail loose. 1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxvii. 186 We bowed across five feet of Nubian dirt. 1990 Raritan Spring 43 The majestic Nubian bouab in his white robes and turban..held open the door of the lift. b. Originally U.S. Of or relating to African heritage; black. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] > relating to Moresco?1551 blacka1652 Negro1653 negroish1746 niggerish1825 darkie1839 dinge1848 niggery1855 Negrotic1863 negritic1870 Nigritic1889 melanoderm1926 soul1960 Nubian1971 1971 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 63/4 Now the public relations man will be putting his efforts into his own company, Nubian Press... The first book to be published will be ‘The Nubian Baby Book’, the purpose of which will be to familiarize black tots with the Afro-American heritage. 1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 251 I'd just positioned myself to pull a beautiful Nubian princess with a smile like sunshine, when Froggy bust my set by putting a Malibu and pineapple juice in my hand. 2002 Essence (Electronic ed.) Jan. 73 When women of African ancestry..measure our Nubian gifts against the mark set by media-canonized, surgically altered and airbrushed European beauties, we slap our ancestral mothers' face and wound our soul. 2. Designating animals of a kind found in Nubia; designating species of animals native to Nubia. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [adjective] > plants or animals of a particular region > from specified region EnglisheOE Arabian1580 Scotch1610 West Indian1625 Scots1728 Creole1758 Californian1785 Nubian1790 Lusitanian1907 pantropical1913 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile IV. viii. x. 523 What figure the Nubian breed would make in point of fleetness is very doubtful. 1858 A. M. Redfield Zoöl. Sci. 167 The Egyptian and Nubian horses are still among the handsomest, but Arabia bears the palm in producing the most beautiful breed of horses. 1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 517 The Domestic Cat..is apparently a descendant of the Nubian Wild Cat. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xx. 233 Our South African (Struthi australis) and Nubian ostriches occupy a paddock with only an unheated shed for shelter. 1973 Sci. Amer. June 40/2 Other mammals that appear to be breeding well in captivity..include..the Nubian wild ass. Compounds Nubian giraffe n. a giraffe of the nominate subspecies Giraffa camelopardis camelopardis, of East Africa. ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Zool. Soc. 2 235 In the male Nubian Giraffes..the posterior horns..were less firmly attached to the skull than they were in the full-grown Cape Giraffes. 1921 Biometrika 13 354 Camelopardalis giraffa (Nubian giraffe). 1979 Science 18 May 755 (caption) Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis, Nubian giraffe, from the Sudan. Nubian goat n. a breed of goat distinguished by a convex profile, large pendulous ears, short hair, and long legs, probably of both North African and Indian origin; a goat of this breed; (now also) an Anglo-Nubian goat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > other types of goateOE ibex1607 whidaw goat1781 shawl-goat1793 jaal-goat1838 Nubian1879 Nubian goat1879 Toggenburg1886 Anglo-Nubian1898 Saanen1908 walia1932 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 709/2 The Nubian Goat, which is met with in Nubia, Upper Egypt, and Abyssinia. 1979 B. Tudor Drawn from New Eng. x. 90 (caption) Sometimes she is even allowed to ride on a wether goat with Tasha standing by... Left, Tasha with a prize Nubian goat. 1983 P. St. Pierre Smith & Other Events. Tales of Chilcotin (1985) 53 A piece of bottom land beside Soap Lake Creek, which was big enough to nourish a Nubian goat and a Newfoundland dog but not much more. Nubian woodpecker n. an East African woodpecker, Campethera nubica, which has a spotted breast, a yellowish tail, and (in the male) a red crown. ΚΠ 1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 180 The Nubian woodpecker is in length seven inches and a half. 1963 J. G. Williams Field Guide Birds E. & Central Afr. 173 The Golden-tailed Woodpecker..differs from the Nubian Woodpecker in having black streaks, not spots, on the underparts. 1993 B. L. Monroe & C. G. Sibley World Checklist Birds 22 Campethera nubica, Nubian Woodpecker. 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