| 释义 |
Sudanese, a. and n.|suːdəˈniːz|
Also Soudanese.
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Sudan.
B. n. An inhabitant or the inhabitants of the Sudan. Also in Comb., as Sudanese-Guinean (see quots.).
1875Gordon in G. in Central Africa (1881) 77 Cowardly, lying, effeminate brutes these Arabs and Soudanese! 1884Keane Ethnol. Egyptian Sudan 17 Subjoined are tabulated schemes of all the Eastern Sudanese and contiguous ethnical groups. 1884E. W. Hamilton Diary 13 May (1972) II. 615 In the House of Commons yesterday there was an abnormal display of excitement..on the occasion of the Soudanese or Gordonese vote of censure moved by Sir M. H. Beach. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 277/2 The well-watered and arable Soudanese lands. Ibid. 279/1 The Sudanese Negro peoples. 1905Sayce in Contemp. Rev. Aug. 267 The Egyptian has never been fond of military service, whereas, we all now know, the Sudanese is essentially a fighting animal. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 207 Sudanese-Guinean, a family of African Negro languages, spoken by an estimated total of 50,000,000 persons... Some linguists consider Sudanese and Guinean as two independent families. 1967M. Schlauch Language ii. 39 In a wide belt stretching across Northern Africa, bounded on the South by a line extending Eastwards from the shores of the Gulf of Guinea and then dipping still farther to the South, we find a chain of languages grouped together and known as Sudanese-Guinean.
Also Sudaˈni (also Sudany) a. and n. in the same sense; Sudanian |suːˈdeɪnɪən| a. [f. mod.L. Sudania, the Sudan], Sudanese.
1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 305 The black Súdanian nations. 1896Daily News 20 May 5/1 He is a Sudani, and was one of Gordon's soldiers. 1906Petrie Relig. Anc. Egypt ix. 63 The Sudany dancer. 1908Sir H. Johnston Grenfell & the Congo II. xxiii. 587 Sudanian Africa. |