| 释义 |
Venda, n. and a.|ˈvɛndə|
[An African word; since 1973 the name of a Bantu homeland in north Transvaal.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) a Bantu people inhabiting the north-eastern Transvaal and southern Zimbabwe.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
[1905Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. XXXV. 365 That part of the Bantu race of which I have to treat in this paper calls itself Bawenda, that is to say, people of Wenda, or inhabitants of Wenda.] 1908Jrnl. Afr. Society VII. 412 Venda. Spoken by the Bavenda in North Transvaal. 1912H. A. Junod Life S. Afr. Tribe I. i. i. 18 We find colonies of emigrated Thonga in many parts of the Transvaal. The largest is in the Spelonken district... There they are called Magwamba by the Venda and Bvesha who possessed the country before them. Ibid. II. vi. i. 327 There is a third tradition relating to the first man, but it has..been borrowed from the Venda or Pedi tribes. 1921S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. Apr. 208 All these Venda clans (and the Malemba also) speak of their mountain. 1931H. A. Stayt BaVenda p. xi, These boys..were familiar with the whole country and understood the different Venda dialects. 1937[see inkosi]. 1950I. Schapera in Radcliffe-Brown & Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 144 Paternal aunts..do not command anything like the great authority they are said to possess among the Venda. 1977Times 23 Nov. 20/8 We are oppressed..not as Zulus, Xhosas, Vendas or Indians. We are oppressed because we are black. 1979J. Drummond I saw him Die vii. 74 She began talking in some dialect I didn't understand—Venda, perhaps. 1979Guardian Weekly 12 Aug. 6/3 In last year's general election, Chief Mphephu's ruling Venda National Party was decisively defeated by the Opposition Venda Independence Party. |