单词 | yemenite |
释义 | Yemeniten.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific dynasties or sects Levite1377 Rechabitea1382 Simeonite1530 Danite1535 Yemenite1566 Hasmonean1583 1566 Bible: 1 Sam. ix. 21 Am not I the sonne of a Jaminite of the smallest tribe of Israel: and my kyured is the leest of all the kyuredes of the trybe of Ben Jamin. 1568 Bible (Bishops') 1 Sam. ix. 21 Am not I the sonne of a Jeminite. 2. = Yemeni n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Iran, Iraq, or the Gulf > [noun] MedeeOE Persianc1375 Persec1384 Medianc1400 Lydian1545 Mesopotamian1553 Meccana1618 Ma'dan1792 Omanic1819 Iraqi1824 Yemenite1864 Sumerian1873 Akkadian1908 Yemeni1916 Marsh Arab1917 Medinese1922 Iraqian1923 Kuwaiti1928 Tehrani1939 Qatari1954 1864 J. T. Thomson Some Glimpses Life Far East lviii. 323 By race he was a Yemenite. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 518/2 The Yemenites rashly invited Turkish intervention. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iv. 91 Those Arab girls, those Yemenites, Syrians, those Israelites, Samaritans. 1976 C. Bermant Coming Home ii. iii. 154 One of those private schools..basically..for the sons of Arab oil sheiks, but it also housed..tall, lean Persians, tiny, dusky Yemenites, a few bombastic Greeks. 3. A Jew who was, or whose ancestors were, formerly resident in Yemen. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific area the Dispersion1382 Oriental Jew1659 diaspora1694 Polack1834 Ashkenazim1839 Hebraist1892 Litvak1892 Peruvian Jew1897 Tudesco1897 halutzim1921 Yemenite1926 Ostjuden1934 Sabra1945 Yekke1950 refusenik1973 1926 tr. Granovsky's Land Prob. Palestine i. 18 The history of Jewish colonization in Palestine shows many attempts to create a class of Jewish farm laborers..by establishing small settlements for Yemenites (Jewish immigrants from Southern Arabia). 1935 A. Revusky Jews in Palestine xii. 206 The Sephardim and Yemenites, the two main groups of Oriental Jews. B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating a Yemeni Arab or a Yemeni Jew. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] > Yemeni Arab or Jew Yemenite1876 1876 R. D. Osborn Islam under Arabs iii. i. 296 The Yemenite Arabs of Syria were known as the Kelbites. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 329/2 The present Sultan, a descendant of those Yemenite Imams who consolidated Arab power in Zanzibar. 1926 Sunday at Home July 636/1 Another industry which has been revived in Jerusalem is the silver filigree work of the Yemenite Jews. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. v. 279 Fierce-looking Yemenite gun-molls, Sephardi beauties. 1955 S. N. Eisenstadt in Public Opinion Q. XIX. 156 (heading) Communication in a traditional Yemenite community. 1978 Church Times 16 June 11/2 In the Flea Market [of Tel Aviv]..the Guide did not want us to miss the sight of Arabs buying from Yemenite salesmen. 1982 D. Wiltse Wedding Guest ix. 113 He was an Arab, but he could have been anything from Moroccan to Yemenite. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.adj.1566 |
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