| 释义 |
peshmerga, n.|pɛʃˈmɜːgə, pɛʃˈmɛəgə|
Also Pesh Merga, etc.
[ad. Kurdish pěŝmerge, f. pěŝ in front of, before + merg death.]
(A member of) a Kurdish nationalist revolutionary army established in the early 1960s.
1965Sunday Times 10 Oct. 10/3 In the six weeks I was with the Pesh Mergas I never heard a grumble. Every man is a volunteer and enlistments have recently been closed for lack of equipment and supplies. 1966H. Arfa Kurds iv. 151 In July [1964]..the P.D.K. leaders, together with 630 Pishmargeh..crossed the lesser Zab river into Iran. 1975Nat. Geographic Mar. 382 With ammunition always in short supply, the Pesh Mergas must make every round count. 1979Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 4/8 One new element in the situation is the movement of Kurds from Turkey into Iran, where they are joining the peshmurga, or partisans. 1987Atlantic Nov. 38/2 Perched on isolated slopes, amid oak and mountain ash, Kurdish guerrillas known as pesh mergas (‘those who are prepared to die’) have in recent years wiped out whole units of Turkish and Iraqi soldiers and Iranian revolutionary guards. 1988Times 7 Sept. 6/7 The Ambassador said the Kurdish peshmergas had not laid down their arms. 1990Times 23 Jan. 32/1 Perhaps for the first time, he is acutely uncomfortable in his khaki shirt and baggy trousers, which give him away as a peshmerga. |