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单词 pattamar
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pattamarn.

Brit. /ˈpatəmɑː/, U.S. /ˈpædəˌmɑr/
Forms: 1500s–1700s patamar, 1600s pattemar, 1600s– pattamar, 1700s–1800s pattymar, 1700s–1800s pattymaur, 1700s– pattimar, 1800s paddimar, 1800s petamar.
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese patamar.
Etymology: < Portuguese patamar (mid 16th cent. in sense 1, c1600 in sense 2), apparently < Marathi pattevār letter < pattā information + Persian -vār containing, possessing (perhaps influenced by local colloquial form *pattemār or *pattāmār ); compare (with sense 1) Konkani pathmār courier, (with sense 2) Marathi patemārī dispatch boat ( > Gujarati phatemārī , Malayalam pattimāri ), which are perhaps < Portuguese. Compare Dutch patamares , plural (1596 in passage translated in quot. 1598 at sense 1).
1. In southern and western India: a person who carries messages on foot; a courier. Obsolete.
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society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger > running or express messenger
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1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxxix. 73/2 There are others that are called Patamares, which serue onlie for Messengers or Posts, to carie letters from place to place by land.
1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 415 November the 1st. arriv'd a Pattamar or Courrier, from our Fakeel, or Solliciter at Court.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iv. 36 After a month's stay here a Patamar (a Foot-Post) from Fort St. George made us sensible of the Dutch being gone from thence to Ceilon.
1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies x. 192 Betwixt Surat and Bombay there is a constant intercourse preserved..by Pattamars, or foot-messengers, over land.
1784 Ann. Reg. 1782 Characters 50/1 This mendicant order of religious, often supply our patty-maurs with provisions on their journies.
2. Originally: an Indian dispatch boat. Subsequently: a fast-sailing lateen-rigged vessel, with up to three masts, used on the west coast of India for trading.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > with specific rig > lateen-rigged > types of
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1704 tr. P. Baldæus Descr. Ceylon in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 740/2 Patamars are Indian Advice-boats cover'd all over for the Carriage of Letters.
1800 Duke of Wellington Suppl. Dispatches (1858) II. 341 I take the opportunity of the dispatch of a Pattamar boat from hence.
1822 R. G. Wallace 15 Years in India 206 About 12 o'clock on the same night they embarked in Paddimars for Cochin.
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 201 To engage a pattamar, or large sea-going boat.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. i. 103 Amongst the vessels at anchor lie the dows of the Arabs, the petamars of Malabar, the dhoneys of Coromandel.
1906 H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail ix. 313 The pattamar, the favourite type of trading dhow on the Bombay and Malabar coasts, has much in common with the Red Sea baggara.
1916 Yachting Monthly May 18/1 We overtook and sailed through a fleet of Pattimars, all outward bound like ourselves.
1983 UNESCO Courier (Nexis) Dec. 30 The pattamars are remarkably commodious craft and, being undecked, are capable of carrying enormous loads of timber.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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