释义 |
Tigrayan /tɪˈɡreɪən /(also Tigrean) adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the Ethiopian province of Tigray or its people: the tiny Tigrayan minority community...- During the colonial era, Italy briefly ruled Tigrayan lands.
- Among the first peoples to inhabit Ethiopia were Ge'ez speaking agrarians, who settled in the Tigrayan highlands around 2000 BC.
- At the same time he adopted the name of a Tigrayan nationalist student who had been killed by the regime.
nounA native or inhabitant of the Ethiopian province of Tigray: they would prefer the leadership to remain in the hands of a Tigrayan...- The regions of Ethiopia and Eritrea where most Tigrayans live are high plateau, separated from the Red Sea by an escarpment) and a desert.
- The Tigrayans, in fact, had been converted to Christianity hundreds of years before most of Europe.
- Today roughly half the Tigrayans live in Ethiopia and the other half in Eritrea.
RhymesEritrean, Ghanaian, Himalayan, Malayan |