单词 | uji |
释义 | ujin.1 In feudal Japan, a name indicating which ancestral noble family the bearer belonged to; a patriarchal lineage group comprising all those with the same uji. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] kinc825 strindc900 maegtheOE i-cundeeOE birdeOE houseOE kindOE kindreda1225 bloodc1300 strainc1330 lineage?a1366 generationa1382 progenya1382 stock1382 nationc1395 tribec1400 ligneea1450 lifec1450 family1474 prosapy?a1475 parentage1490 stirpc1503 pedigree1532 racea1547 stem?c1550 breed1596 progenies1673 familia1842 uji1876 1876 W. E. Griffis Mikado's Empire (1877) i. xii. 117 The family name (uji) precedes the personal..name. 1896 F. Brinkley Japanese-Eng. Dict. 1555/1 Although the offshoots from these noble families took various names.., yet these were not, strictly speaking, the family names or uji in the now-accepted sense. 1931 G. B. Sansom Japan i. ii. 36 The society consisted of patriarchal units called uji, which were communities formed of a number of households of the same ancestry. 1970 J. W. Hall Japan iv. 29 Being of the upper class the uji possessed surnames and bore titles of respect. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 238/1 The uji members..were supported by the labour of common workers, who were organized into subunits of the uji... Imperial rule over the various autonomous uji remained weak until the adoption of centralized government in the early 8th century. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022). ujin.2 East African. In Kenyan and Tanzanian cookery: a light liquid food, typically eaten for breakfast, made by boiling (often fermented) millet flour or another farinaceous substance in water or milk. ΚΠ 1889 A. N. Wood Jrnl. 15 July in Church Missionary Intelligencer (1890) Mar. 184/2 He brought me a large pot of ‘uji’ (gruel), sweetened with honey. 1993 Kenya National Assembly Official Rec. 3 Nov. 2147/2 So, they are using jaggery to make uji for their children because their children cannot drink uji without something sweet in it. 2019 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 16 May I visited grandma again a few years ago and she made traditional uji. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.11876n.21889 |
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