| 释义 |
Fan, n.3 and a.|fæn|
Also Fang.
[Fr. Fan, presumably ad. Fan Pangwe.]
A. n.
a. A member of an African people in the Ogowe basin in western equatorial Africa.
b. The Bantu language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1861P. B. Du Chaillu Expl. & Adv. Afr. vii. 65 He..set off to a Fan village. Ibid. 67 Great crowds of Fan..came to see me. 1865Trans. Ethnol. Soc. Lond. III. 37 It is proposed thus to write the very nasal nasals of the Fan language. 1879Encycl. Brit. X. 3/2 The Fan, whose name appears under the various forms of Fanwe, Panwe, Phaouin, and Paouen, are newcomers to the Gaboon district. 1883R. N. Cust Sk. Mod. Lang. Afr. II. xii. 413 As we advance into the Interior, we find only two leading Languages, the Fan, spoken by the invading Oshiba, and the Benga. 1897M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. xiv. 319 A young Fan man has to fend for himself. Ibid. 322 Fan pottery, although rough and sunbaked, is artistic in form. 1911J. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 3) I. vi. 349 Thus in the Fan tribe the strict distinction between chief and medicine-man does not exist. The chief is also a medicine-man and a smith to boot; for the Fans esteem the smith's craft sacred, and none but chiefs may meddle with it. 1936Discovery June 172/1 The area of the Western Bantu includes..in the west [the home of] such renowned cannibals as the Fang; it also includes the territory of considerable and highly organised kingdoms, such as the medieval kingdoms of the Kongo and the Balunda, and the later Bushongo Empire. 1962Listener 12 Apr. 630/1 The Fan villages. |