单词 | parangi |
释义 | parangin. 1. In Sri Lanka: a contagious tropical disease, yaws. Now rare or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > yaws pian1625 yaws1679 crab yaws1740 framboesia1782 parangi1821 craw-craw1863 Barcoo rot1889 jungle rot1944 1821 H. Marshall Notes Med. Topogr. Interior Ceylon iii. 43 There is a complaint mentioned in the Kandyan medical works, called parangy lede (Parangy disease).] 1821 H. Marshall Notes Med. Topogr. Interior Ceylon iii. 44 Many of the cutaneous affections which they denominate parangy, are evidently herpetic, and cannot be referred to a syphilitic origin. 1882 Med. Times & Gaz. 14 Jan. 30/1 The diseases which parangi resembles are syphilis and its various manifestations, lupus leprosy, and frambœsia. 1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson 512/2 Paranghee, an obstinate chronic disease endemic in Ceylon. It has a superficial resemblance to syphilis. 1913 L. Woolf Village in Jungle i. 11 There were few in the village without the filthy sores of parangi, their legs eaten out to the bone with the yellow, sweating ulcers. 1994 Genitourinary Med. 70 350/2 This campaign to control parangi was so successful that in 1931 the principal medical officer was able to report that the disease had almost been eliminated from most parts of the island. 1998 N. Perera Society & Space iii. 72 Colonial officials in Ceylon related the disease parangi (yaws) to a diet which included kurakkan. 2. Usually derogatory. Also with capital initial. In South India and Sri Lanka: a European; a Christian, esp. an Indian or Sri Lankan one; a person of mixed Indian or Sri Lankan and European heritage. Cf. burgher n. 3. ΚΠ 1903 W. Crooke Yule & Burnell's Hobson-Jobson (new ed.) at Firinghee In South India the Tamil P'arangi, the Singhalese Parangi, mean only ‘Portuguese’ (or natives converted by the Portuguese, or by Mahommedans, any European.).] 1930 C. M. Rickmers tr. Cūlavamsa II. xcviii. 253 The infamous Paraṅgis, the infidels. 1991 S. Muthiah Words in Indian Eng. 70 Parangi, a European, but now more usually used in the vernaculars to describe an Anglo-Indian or Burgher. 1994 Genitourinary Med. 70 349/2 As the Portuguese were the first Europeans whom local people encountered, they were referred to as the ‘parangies’. 1997 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 56 1010 The term parañgi could be extended to the Catholics. 2000 Re: Non-cooly websites in soc.culture.sri-lanka (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Nov. Now you don't want to own up to your white or fair skinned parangi heritage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1821 |
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