单词 | nyanja |
释义 | Nyanjan.adj. A. n. 1. A member of an African people inhabiting central Malawi and adjoining areas of Zambia and Mozambique. Also (occasionally): = Manganja n. Cf. Chewa n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples Swahili1814 Chagga1823 Mashona1835 Wagogo1840 Wachagga1849 Tumbuka1850 Sukuma1860 Wanyamwezi1860 Babemba1867 Kavirondo1870 Nyamwezi1885 Bemba1887 Chewa1887 Shangaan1887 Rwanda1889 Awemba1890 Yao1894 Ngoni1899 Nyanja1899 Kisii1905 Ganda1906 Meru1908 Lamba1909 Hutu1922 Lozi1935 Ila1956 Gogo1957 1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 28 76 Sir H. H. Johnston..distinguishes ten groups among the Bantu negroes of the eastern half of British Central Africa. Of these groups, four only are considered in this paper, the Ba-tumbuka, Nyanja, the Makua, and the Wayao. 1924 A. Werner in G. Lagden Native Races of Empire iii. 88 A Nyanja and a Tumbuka might understand each other. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 361/2 Nine main groups are historically associated with modern Malawi—the Chewa, Nyanja, Lomwe, Yao, Tumbuka, Sena, Tonga, Ngone, and Ngonde. 1990 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 240 534 The reference to fighting may point to a temporary period of alliance between the Msamala Yao and the Nyanja against the Ngoni from around the 1840s. 2. The Bantu language of the Nyanja. Cf. Chichewa n. ΘΚΠ 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 1902 H. Barnes Nyanja-Eng. Vocab. p. ii The vocabulary is primarily intended to help people to understand the Nyanja that they hear or read, and not to make up Nyanja to inflict on wandering natives. 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. 1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World iii. 347 Nyanja, known as Chewa in Malawi, is the major language. 1990 Eng. World-wide 218 The rivalry of Bemba and Nyanja as national lingua francas. B. adj. Of or relating to the Nyanja or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [adjective] > Bantu peoples Wagogo1840 Swahilian1846 Tumbuka1850 Wanyamwezi1860 Rwanda1864 Nyasa1887 Ngoni1891 Mashona1893 Ganda1894 Ila1907 Meru1908 Chewa1909 Yao1910 Nyanja1923 Lozi1937 Nyamwezi1939 Sukuma1953 Lamba1956 Gogo1969 the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages Kaffir1588 Kongo1597 Xhosa1812 Amapondo1830 Zulu1839 Sesotho1844 Swahilian1846 Kikuyu1850 Bantu1858 Fan1861 Amandebele1872 Nyamwezi1872 Wagogo1878 Lunda1879 Luganda1882 Sotho1883 Gogo1891 Tonga1891 Chichewa1897 Ronga1897 Bemba1904 Ila1907 Tsonga1907 Meru1908 Chewa1909 Venda1913 Lingala1922 Luba1922 Pedi1922 Nyanja1923 Nguni1929 Ndebele1930 Lobedu1937 Tiv1939 Mongo1961 Siswati1964 1923 H. H. Johnston Story of my Life xi. 270 The people indigenous to the Mlanje range were of Nyanja stock dominated by these Muhammadan Yaos. 1966 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. (ed. 4) ix. 148 The spirits of dead Nyanja chiefs..are specially appealed to for rain. 1995 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 21 486 He had never heard the word and..the term did not exist either in the Shona, Ndebele or Nyanja languages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1899 |
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