| 单词 | inkosikazi |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinkosikazi inkosikazi n. (also inquosegose etc.) (a) the wife of a chief; (b) native name for a white married woman. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > white woman squaw1642 memsahib1832 inkosikazi1835 pink toe1930 gringa1956 society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > South African > wife of inkosikazi1835 1835 A. Steedman Wanderings S. Afr. I. x. 256 The Chief having many wives..the sovereignty devolves on the offspring of the Inkose kosi, female chieftain, or queen. 1836 N. Isaacs Trav. E. Afr. (1937) II. 63 All the inquosegoses were present. 1866 H. Robertson Mission Life among Zulu-Kafirs 103 Look, Inkosikazi, here is Mary putting this in my best trowsers. 1878 H. A. Roche On Trek in Transvaal 246 He [sc. the washing Kaffir] acquits himself at his task better than the Inkosigas who bungles hers so sadly. 1948 A. Paton Cry, Beloved Country ii. viii. 175 My heart holds a deep sorrow for you, and for the inkosikazi, and for the young inkosikazi, and for the children. 1969 I. Vaughan Last of Sunlit Years iii. 25 ‘Nkosikaas,’ Moses had asked, ‘what sort of a table is this?’ < as lemmas |
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