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Nuba|ˈnuːbə|
Also Nouba.
[See Nubian a. and n.]
The name of a group of peoples of southern Kordofan in the Sudan; a member of these peoples. Also attrib. or as adj.
1827J. Conder Mod. Traveller: Egypt, Nubia, & Abyssinia II. 242 The male Noubas, in Egypt as well as in Arabia, are preferred to all others for labour. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 316/2 Certainly none of the chief native races in Soudan..Maba in Wadai, Nuba in the Nile valley..can be considered as of pure Negro descent. 1910Ibid. II. 51/2 The Nuba and Nuer [of the Upper Nile] worship the bull. 1911Ibid. XV. 907/2 The Nubas have their own language, though the inhabitants of each hill have usually a different dialect... In the northern hills [of Kordofan] are communities of black people... They speak Arabic and are called Nuba Arabs. 1911J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. iii. 122 When a Nuba of north-eastern Africa goes to El Obeid for the first time, he tells his wife not to wash or oil herself. 1936Discovery June 170/1 The Nubians (not to be confused with the Nuba of Kordofan). 1949J. S. Trimingham Islam in Sudan i. 3 Here live the settled ‘Arab’ population of Kordofān, the Baqqāra cattle⁓breeding Arabs, the pastoral negroid Shilluk, and the pagan Nūba in the hills. 1962Oliver & Fage Short Hist. Afr. iv. 47 The kingdom of the Nuba who are above upper Egypt. 1966C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush iii. 46 The Nuba of Kordofan..say that it was the baboon that stole the Kako's (hyrax's) tail. 1970Man, Myth, & Magic v. 138/3 Victorious Nuba wrestlers are awarded branches which are burnt; the wrestler covers himself with the ashes before the next fight. 1972J. C. Faris in Cunnison & James Ess. Sudan Ethnogr. i. 3 The Southeastern Nuba have suffered locally at the hands of a series of raiders and slavers for a long time. |