单词 | kya |
释义 | kyan. In southern Africa: a traditional African hut; (also) an African servant's quarters. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > types of lonquhardc1480 hothouse1643 ajoupa1666 penthouse1683 pandal?1692 bark-hut1744 log-tent1748 log cabin1770 bush-hut1775 log-hut1778 yurt1780 isba1784 beach hut1806 whare1807 bough-house1811 pondok1815 grass hut1818 hartebeest house1818 leaf hut1818 gunyah1820 grass house1823 slab-and-bark hut1826 slab-and-shingle hut1826 slab whare1826 rondavel1829 bush-house1835 skerm1835 jacal1838 toldo1839 log-shanty1847 wurley1847 maloca1853 palm hut1853 whare1853 hutmenta1857 bush-shanty1857 benab1860 pondokkie1862 bothan1863 lanaia1869 hogan1872 tenta1873 beehive-hut1884 leaf shelter1886 Oklahoma1889 goondie1890 cabana1898 troolie hut1899 tukul1901 fale1902 banda1908 kya1909 hut1913 obi1913 Nissen hut1917 Nissen1919 basha1921 tourist cabin1928 bunkie1935 wanigan1937 Quonset hut1942 chickee1943 iron lung1943 Quonset1943 1909 K. Fairbridge Veld Verse 85 Where the high-veld breaks to valley..Stands a kaia looking Northward through the mountains to the plain. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John xvi. 257 Inanda's Kraal was a cluster of kyas and rondavels. 1911 East London Daily Dispatch (S. Afr.) 24 Nov. A native living in a kraal at Lydenberg quarrelled with another native, whom he accused of having fired his kya. 1935 L. G. Green Great Afr. Mysteries (1937) xvi. 192 Each house has a separate kya in the back garden for the servant. 1950 Cape Argus 4 Mar. 9/5 Fowl-pens, temporary tin Native kias and big heaps of rubble. 1956 N. Gordimer Six Feet of Country iii. 38 These two white-washed servants' rooms (some white people called them kyas,..wanting to keep in their minds the now vanished mud huts which the word indicated). 1971 Guardian 29 Sept. 19/3 The houseboys' Kias (usually one small room) at the bottom of the garden. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1909 |
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