单词 | sat-bhai |
释义 | sat-bhain. Indian English. The jungle babbler, Turdoides striata (family Leiotrichidae). Quot. 1849 shows the Indian term.Also known as seven sisters (seven sisters n. 4). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Timaliinae > genus Turdoides babillard1831 sat-bhai1863 seven sisters bird1873 Arabian babbler1967 1849 E. Blyth Catal. Birds Mus. Asiatic Soc. 140 M[alacocercus]bengalensis... Sat Bhai (‘seven brothers’). H.] 1863 T. C. Jerdon Birds India II. 65 It [sc. the large grey babbler] leaves the jungles and wilds, and becomes the familiar and unscared..Sat bhai. 1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 2) 62 The blue jay screams and flutters where the cheery sát-bhai dwell. 1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions ii. 27 The normal noises of an Indian morning:..the harsh cry of a peacock..and the chatter and chirrup of tree-rats saht-bai and weaver-birds. 1996 R. Ives Of Tigers & Men vii. 51 ‘You know what I hear?’ ‘What?’ ‘Birds. You know, satbhai?’ ‘The seven sisters—jungle babblers.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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