| 释义 |
Maler, n. and a.|ˈmɑːlə(r)|
Also Mal, Male, Moler, Muler.
[Native word = ‘hillmen’, ult. f. Dravidian mala mountain.]
A. n.
a. A Dravidian people living in the Rajmahal hills of northern India; a member of this people.
b. The language spoken by this people (also called Malto, Rajmahali).
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Maler people or their language.
1811F. Buchanan Jrnl. Survey Bhagalpur (1930) 133 The Not Pahariyas..eat and intermarry with the Moler... Many of the men speak the Moler language. Ibid. 138 The interpreter tribe is here called Desi Moler... Many of them speak the Muler language, and they eat and can intermarry with the Muler of the hills. 1853J. R. Logan in Jrnl. Indian Archipelago VII. 50, I infer that the Male and Kol resemble the coarser Binua tribes of the Malay Peninsula more than the Burmans. 1872E. T. Dalton Descriptive Ethnol. Bengal viii. 264 The Málers were the first of the aboriginal tribes of Bengal that were prominently noticed by the officers of the East India Company. 1873E. Balfour Cycl. India III. s.v. Male, The Male or Rajmahali are described as mostly very low in stature, but stout and well proportioned. 1885G. C. Whitworth Anglo-Indian Dict. 262/1 Rájmaháli, the name of a tribe called also Pahári. Also the name of their language, which is Dravidian. These people call themselves Maler. 1892H. H. Risley Tribes & Castes Bengal: Ethnogr. Gloss. II. 54 In 1782..one of the archers murdered a Málé woman, and in order to punish this..Mr. Cleveland proposed the formation of a district tribunal. 1906G. A. Grierson Ling. Survey India IV. 446 In former days the Maler made frequent raids on the plains. 1915Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 344/2 Māl, Mālē, Māl Pahāriā, a non-Aryan tribe, containing various groups... The inter-relations of the North and South groups have not been clearly ascertained, but they seem to be, to a large extent, pure Dravidians, and those in the Rājmahāl Hills in Bengal are closely allied to the Orāons. 1930C. E. A. W. Oldham in F. Buchanan Jrnl. Survey Bhagalpur 138 Here we find Bhuiyās still speaking the Maler or Malto language. 1938S. S. Sarkar Mālérs of Rajmahal Hills i. 8 The dress of the womenfolk of the Mālérs and the Orāons differs greatly from one another. Ibid. 15 The Mālér country is bounded by the Ganges in the north. 1963L. P. Vidyarthi Maler i. 11 To a Maler, the pleasure or wrath of spirits and supernatural powers controls the nature of happenings in the Maler family, village,..field or..forests. |