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单词 jangada
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jangadan.

/dʒaŋˈɡɑːdə/
Forms: Also 1500s gyngatho, gingatho, 1600s gingatha, gingada, gingado, ( jergado), 1700s jungodo, jungada, janjade.
Etymology: < Portuguese jangada (1504 in Correa), < Malayalam changāḍam, in Tulu jangāla raft, junction of two boats, ferry-boat, < Sanskrit saṃghāṭa, ‘fitting and joining together (of timber), joinery’. Taken by the Portuguese from East Indies to South America, where it is now chiefly used.
(a) A float or raft consisting of four or five logs fastened together, and furnished with a seat and lateen sail, so as to form a rude fishing-boat: used in the northern parts of Brazil and Peru. (b) Originally: a raft, used in the East Indies, often formed of two or more boats fastened together; a jangar n.
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1589 J. Sarracoll in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 800 There came aboord vs, two Indians vpon a Gyngatho.
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xcii. 147/2 Some tooke bords, deals, and other peeces of wood, & bound them together (which ye Portingals cal Iangadas)..all hoping to saue their liues.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. v. 631 Their Boat being split in pieces, made a Gingada of Timber.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 181 These Balzas, called by the Indians, Jungadas [note, They are the same that are called Catamorans in the East Indies].
1846 G. Gardner Trav. Brazil 79.
1893 Daily News 27 May 5/3 To create a fresh sensation by importing a ‘Jangada’ from Pernambuco for use on our own river.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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