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单词 daman
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damann.

/ˈdamən/
Etymology: < the Arabic name daman isrāīl, sheep or lamb of Israel.
The Syrian rock-badger or ‘cony’ of Scripture ( Hyrax syriacus); the name is also extended to the species found at the Cape ( H. capensis).
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1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant 336 The Daman Israel is an Animal likewise of Mount Libanus, though common in other places of this Country..We have..presumptive Proof that this Creature is the Saphan of the Scriptures.
1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile I. x. 241 I went ashore here [i.e. at Cape Mahomet] and shot a small animal among the rocks, called Daman Israel or Israel's Lamb; I do not know why, for it has no resemblance to the sheep kind.
1825 R. T. Gore tr. Blumenbach Nat. Hist. iv. 47 The Daman, Cape Hyrax.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxiv. 497 The skin..is nearly naked, except in the case of the swine, the daman, the mammoth and some others.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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