单词 | beja |
释义 | Bejan. A nomadic people of Hamitic extraction living between the Nile and the Red Sea; the Cushitic language of this people. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > Hamite or Nilo-Hamite > [noun] > Hamitic or Nilo-Hamitic peoples Somali1809 Bejaa1817 Teso- the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Cushitic > Cushitic languages Agaw1808 Bejaa1817 Sidamo1830 Galla1848 Saho1849 Somali1850 Cushitic1854 Afar1869 Danakil1885 a1817 J. L. Burckhardt Trav. Nubia (1819) 503 In battle the Bedja pursue each other with their camels. a1817 J. L. Burckhardt Trav. Nubia (1819) 526 People were found among the Djidda inhabitants who spoke Bedja. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 611/2 The Hamitic Beja. 1955 Times 8 July 7/2 The Beja is the tribe immortalized by Kipling under the name of Fuzzy Wuzzies after they had broken or nearly broken a British square at the battle of Tamai in 1884. 1961 Listener 16 Nov. 797/1 The Beja people of the Red Sea coast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1817 |
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