| 释义 |
‖ poonghie, phoongyee, phungyi|ˈpoŋgji, ˈpʌndʒɪ|
Forms: 8 pongui, 9 phonghi, -gee, phoongee, -gye(e, poongee, -ghee, -ghie, -gy, -gyee, pongyi.
[Burmese hpōngyī, f. hpōn glory, kyī great.]
The name generally given in Burma to a Buddhist priest or monk. Also attrib.
1788F. Magnus tr. Sonnerat's Voy. III. 17 Their Priests..are called Ponguis, and are less informed than the Bramins. 1834Bp. Bigandet in Jrnl. Ind. Archip. IV. 222–3 (Y.) The Talapoins are called by the Burmese Phonghis, which term means ‘great glory’. 1879F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah II. 7 The poonghee houses or monasteries are splendid. 1897Ld. Roberts 41 Yrs. India lxvi. (1898) 518, I still hear occasionally from one or other of my Poonghie friends. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 302 Yellow-garbed, close-shaven Phoongyees were squatting all over the pavement. 1929F. T. Jesse Lacquer Lady i. v. 36 The King had allowed it [sc. the house] to be built with a triple roof, a thing usually only permitted to Princes and poongyis. Ibid. ii. i. 118 After the litter came sixty-five poongyis..; they walked with downcast eyes, holding their fans up so that they should not by any chance catch sight of a woman. 1930Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 29 May 7/5 Last night a pongyi (Burmese priest) attempted to stab a military policeman. 1951‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 122 He has been a Buddhist monk, a pongyi we call them, for over thirty years. 1966D. Forbes Heart of Malaya xi. 129 Miss Khan..took me across the lane to the Burmese wat and kowtowed to the pongyi in the temple hall. |