单词 | rohingya |
释义 | Rohingyan.adj. A. n. A member of a Muslim people inhabiting western Burma (Myanmar). Also: the Indo-Aryan language of this people. Π 1960 Guardian (Rangoon) May 33 By such intermarriages the Roewengyas..came into being. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 14 Mar. p11 After several months in refugee camps in the Chittagong highlands of Bangladesh, the Rohingya began trickling back to Burma. 1992 Oxfam News Summer 9/2 Up to 7,000 Rohingyas..are fleeing across the border into eastern Bangladesh every day to escape religious persecution. 1998 Myanmar (Burma) (Nelles Guide) 35/2 This community of Muslims gradually evolved their own independent Islamic culture; they even developed their own written language, Rohinga. 2003 B. Lintner in C. Mackerras Ethnicity in Asia x. 180 Their [sc. Moorish, Arab, and Persian traders'] offspring became the forefathers of yet another group, which much later was to become known as the Rohingya. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Rohingya or their language. Π 1975 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 38 487/1 They [sc. the Muslims of Burma] might think of themselves as Burmese, Indian, or Rohinga (in northern Arakan). 1978 Times 3 June 6/8 The Rohingya problem is only one aspect perhaps of the Ne Win regime's unending battles with various ethnic minorities. 1997 B. S. Levy & V. W. Sidel War & Public Health xiii. 188 The death rate among Rohingya girls younger than one year was almost twice that of boys. 2008 P. M. Parker Webster's Rohingya-English Thes. Dict. p. iii For each Rohingya subject word, one or more corresponding English subject words..are provided. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1960 |
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