| 释义 |
Ila, n. and a.|ˈiːlə|
Also Ba-ila.
[Native name.]
A. n.
1. An African of a Bantu people in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia); also used as collect. sing. = this people.
2. The Bantu language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1907E. W. Smith Handbk. Ila Lang. i. 1 The Ila language is spoken by the Baila,..a people living in North-West Rhodesia. Ibid. i. 3 In Ila, as in all Bantu languages, alliteration..is not an accident of style, it is the very essence of the language. 1911Encycl. Brit. III. 359/2 Next is a group which might be styled the Subiya-Tonga-Ila, though some authorities think that Tonga and Ila deserve to be ranked as an independent group. 1920Smith & Dale (title) Ila-speaking peoples of Northern Rhodesia. Ibid. p. xxvii, They are very mixed, but now the language of them all is Ila. 1956W. V. Brelsford Tribes N. Rhodesia viii. 55 The Ila have a great and deserved reputation as fighting men, but their comparative paucity in numbers and the possession of great herds of cattle made them a constant prey to the bigger tribes of Barotseland. 1959Chambers's Encycl. I. (caption, facing p. 140) A chief of the Ila peoples, photographed wearing ivory bracelets and impande, the insignia of office. Ibid. II. 109/2 The Ba-ila live in independent communities. 1960R. C. Bell Board & Table Games I. 121 Chisolo. This is played by the Ba-ila speaking peoples of Northern Rhodesia. 1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 26 The Ila and Tonga people are neither of them West African,..being of the Middle Zambesi 2,300 miles away. |