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单词 purum
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Purumn.

Brit. /ˈpʊrʊm/, /ˈpʊrəm/, U.S. /ˈpʊrʊm/, /ˈpərəm/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Purums.
Forms: 1800s Pooroom, 1900s– Puram, 1900s– Purum.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Purum. Etymon: Purum Purum.
Etymology: Apparently < Purum Purum, self-designation.
A member of a people living near the border of India and Burma (Myanmar).
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1859 W. McCulloch Acct. Valley of Munipore in Select. from Rec. Govt. India: Foreign Dept. xxvii 64 Aimole, Kom, Koireng, Chote, Pooroom, Muntuk, Karum are all evidently only varieties of the Kookie stock.
1880 G. H. Damant in Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 12 238 The principle [sic] tribes found in the Manipúr are Kom, Koireng, Cheru, Chohte, Pooroom, Muntuk, Karum, and Aimole.
1912 J. Shakespear Lushei Kuki Clans ii. iii. 153 Among the..Purum and Lamgang marriages must be made within the clan, but not within the family.
1945 T. Das (title) The Purums, an old Kuki tribe of Manipur.
1971 W. Wilder in R. Needham Rethinking Kinship & Marriage 213 It might well be possible to decide whether local segmentation among the Purum appeared to lead to the formation of alliance groups.
1999 F. El Guindi Veil v. 79 These oppositions, early noted by Needham in his study of the Purum..were universalized in early feminist anthropology.

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1859 W. McCulloch Acct. Valley of Munipore in Select. from Rec. Govt. India: Foreign Dept. xxvii. 65 Of the Aimole, Koireng, Chote, Pooroom, Muntuk and Karum tribes, there are now but small remnants.
1945 T. Das Purums 2 Terms of address used by male and female members of one sib in respect of the members of the remaining sibs also helped to form a correct idea about the ancient laws of Purum marriage.
1971 W. Wilder in R. Needham Rethinking Kinship & Marriage ix. 214 Some recent discussions..are about as far removed from Purum facts as it is possible to get and still call the material ‘Purum’.
2003 G. Gaillard Routledge Dict. Anthropologists xiv. 362 After producing a structural analysis of Purum kinship terminology in 1958 he devoted his first book..to the topic of matrilateral cross-cousin marriage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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