单词 | kongo |
释义 | Kongoadj.n. A. adj. Of or relating to the Kongo (see sense B. 1) or their languages and dialects. Also: of or relating to the Kingdom of Kongo or its inhabitants.It is not always clear whether the terms Kongo and Congo are being used in this sense, or more generically to refer to any person from, or associated with, the Congo region. Cf. Congo adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo > [adjective] Kongo1597 Bakongo1840 Lugbara1907 Luba1957 the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] > of or relating to Bantu languages Kaffir1588 Kongo1597 Xhosa1812 Amapondo1830 Zulu1839 Sesotho1844 Swahilian1846 Kikuyu1850 Bantu1858 Fan1861 Amandebele1872 Nyamwezi1872 Wagogo1878 Lunda1879 Luganda1882 Sotho1883 Gogo1891 Tonga1891 Chichewa1897 Ronga1897 Bemba1904 Ila1907 Tsonga1907 Meru1908 Chewa1909 Venda1913 Lingala1922 Luba1922 Pedi1922 Nyanja1923 Nguni1929 Ndebele1930 Lobedu1937 Tiv1939 Mongo1961 Siswati1964 1597 A. Hartwell tr. D. Lopes Rep. Kingdome of Congo ii. vii. 180 They vse no writing at all in the Congo tongue [It. nell'idioma di Congo]. 1695 J. Stevens tr. M. de Faria y Sousa Portugues Asia I. i. iii. 31 The Congo Embassador being well instructed in the Faith, was sent home with three Ships. a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 195 I was once in the woods, and was caught in a great shower of rain, having only an old Congo negro with me, who made me a hut. 1815 Missionary Reg. (Church Missionary Soc.) Nov. 592 With respect to his present office of Chaplain he says, I should prefer to reside either on Leicester Mountain, or among my good Kongo people. 1887 R. Cust in W. H. Bentley Dict. & Gram. Kongo Lang. Introd. p. vii The Kongo language takes its place by the side of the Swahili, the Zulu, and the Pongwe, as one of the typical languages of the Bantu family. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 273/1 (caption) Kongo nail fetish, coastal region, Lower Congo cultural area. 2001 M. Schuler in L. Heywood Central Afr. & Cultural Transformations in Amer. Diaspora xii. 328 (caption) A Kongo musician in Guyana, c. 1919. B. n. 1. A member of a people living in the region along the lower Congo river; (also) this people; = Bakongo n.The Kongo live in a region along the Atlantic coast which was formerly part of the Kingdom of Kongo. This region now forms parts of the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola. As a historical result of the transatlantic slave trade, there are also significant Kongo populations in areas such as the United States, South America, and the Caribbean (see e.g. quot. 2001 at sense A.).It is not always clear whether the terms Kongo and Congo are being used in this sense, or more generically to refer to any person from, or associated with, the Congo region. Cf. Congo n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo > [noun] Kongo1600 Bakongo1877 Kioko1884 Mongo1906 Lugbara1908 Luba1997 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [noun] > countries or regions Guinean1589 Kongo1600 Gambian1744 Guinea Negro1748 Congoese1765 Sierra Leonean1791 Congolese1800 Liberian1826 Guinea-man1830 Nigerian1860 Lagosian1897 Basenji1906 Ghanaian1949 assimilado1953 Mali1960 Malian1960 Katangese1962 Biafran1967 Zairean1972 Ivorian1973 Zairois1973 Zairese1974 Upper Voltan1975 Voltaic1976 1600 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 503 The people of Cape Verde are called Leophares, and counted the goodliest men of all other, sauing the Congoes. 1670 J. Ogilby Africa 543 The Congo's, inclin'd to the old revenge, and not being able to digest the disgrace, began new Quarrels. 1887 W. H. Bentley Dict. & Gram. Kongo Lang. Pref. p. ix The Bakongo referred to elsewhere in this work, are the independent Kongos living east of the Kwilu River. 1936 Discovery June 172/1 The area of the Western Bantu includes..the territory of considerable and highly organised kingdoms, such as the medieval kingdoms of the Kongo and the Balunda, and the later Bushongo Empire. 2010 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 48 648 Religious attitudes among the Kongo are exceedingly ambiguous. 2. A group of Bantu languages and dialects spoken by the Kongo; any of these languages or dialects; = Kikongo n.Kongo may be variously used to refer to a whole group of closely related languages or dialects, a subset of these, or a single one of them. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages > Kongo Kongo1837 Kikongo1882 1837 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) II. iii. xiv. 315 Kongo dialects from Oldendorp are his four last, viz. Loango, Camba, Mandongo, Kongo, numbered successively. 1862 W. H. I. Bleek Compar. Gram. S. Afr. Langs.: Pt. I ii. 22 Kongo bhobha (to speak, talk) is Hereró pópa (to warn, persuade). 1988 Eng. World-wide 9 150 The suprasegmentals cannot be derived from Twi, Yoruba or Kongo. 2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 470/2 Okapi's talk-radio programs often include human-rights defenders and development experts, and debate is lively in all five of the languages—French, Lingala, Tshiluba, Swahili, and Kongo—in which the station broadcasts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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