单词 | khamba |
释义 | Khamban. a. A Tibetan people from Kham; one of this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Tibet and Nepal > [noun] > peoples of Tibet Tangut1598 Sherpa1847 Tangutan1876 Khamba1928 1928 C. Bell People of Tibet i. 4 Eastern Tibet... This area is known as Kam, the people as Kam-pa. 1928 C. Bell People of Tibet vi. 59 The Lhasa men, they used to say, were fonder of talking than of working; the Kam-pas (eastern Tibetans), irritable and quarrelsome. 1955 G. T. Bull When Iron Gates Yield iv. 58 The soldiers.. were looking forward to a good scrap, for such is the Tibetan Khamba's temperament. 1960 ‘S. Harvester’ Chinese Hammer ii. 31 The only fighting in the country is in the east and restricted to Khambas. 1962 H. E. Richardson Tibet & its Hist. i. 11 The Khampas..live between the upper Yangtse and the Chinese border. b. The language spoken by this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [adjective] > Tibeto-Burman > Tibetic > East Himalayan Limbu1854 Rai1899 Khamba1957 Tibeto-Chinese1960 1957 R. Ford Captured in Tibet i. 22 I had picked up enough words of the Khamba dialect to be able to talk to the local inhabitants. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1955 G. T. Bull When Iron Gates Yield v. 67 A Kamba Tibetan..would rather his blood be spilt in the snow..than to be found alive and defamed. 1957 R. Ford Captured in Tibet iii. 47 When Radio Peking switched its Tibetan broadcasts to a more suitable hour, it still had no audience, for the news-reader spoke with a Khamba accent. 1962 H. E. Richardson Tibet & its Hist. xii. 201 The Chinese..exploited the traditional mistrust of Lhasa officialdom existing among the Khampa and Amdowa tribes to the east of the upper Yangtse. 1973 Times 20 Oct. 3/2 The fourteenth Dalai Lama is..now 38 and has lived in exile in the Indian Himalayas since 1959, when Khamba rebels persuaded him to flee from Lhasa with them after their abortive uprising against the Chinese occupation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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