单词 | lamba |
释义 | lamban.1 A large traditional Madagascan cloak. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > large palliumOE pallionc1300 mantoon1623 boat cloak1773 lamba1880 1729 R. Drury Madagascar 234 The Corps being..wrapped up in a Lamber, or perhaps two Lambers. 1880 J. Sibree Great Afr. Island xvi. 326 The specially national article of dress is the lamba, a piece of cloth about three yards long and two wide. 1895 Daily News 21 Nov. 5/3 The natives in their white lambas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2018). Lambaadj.n.2 A. adj. Of or relating to the Lamba, a Bantu people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern Zambia, or their language. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [adjective] > Bantu peoples Wagogo1840 Swahilian1846 Tumbuka1850 Wanyamwezi1860 Rwanda1864 Nyasa1887 Ngoni1891 Mashona1893 Ganda1894 Ila1907 Meru1908 Chewa1909 Yao1910 Nyanja1923 Lozi1937 Nyamwezi1939 Sukuma1953 Lamba1956 Gogo1969 1893 Gegr. Jrnl. July 68 ‘Iramba’ is the Lamba country. Bun Keya is the name of the old capital. 1904 R. H. Nassau Fetichism in W. Afr. xiii. 203 One man said it was not possible for a Luba and a Lamba man to go out into the country together without one stealing a march on his neighbor. 1908 A. C. Madan Lala-Lamba Handbk. p. iii The Lala and Lamba dialects are so nearly identical..that knowledge of either is a sufficient introduction to the other. 1956 W. V. Brelsford Tribes N. Rhodesia vi. 46 Lamba area as a whole, because of its proximity to the copperbelt, is the most mixed area in the territory. 1957 W. M. Hailey Afr. Surv. (rev. ed.) iii. 113 Studies made..of the Zulu, Shona, and Lamba languages. B. n.2 a. The language of the Lamba people. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages Kaffir1820 Swahilese1833 Sesotho1846 Chagga1849 Kikuyu1849 Mitshi1854 Manganja1859 Bantu1866 Kavirondo1870 Luganda1876 Sotho1876 Fan1883 Gogo1883 Lunda1883 Nyamwezi1883 Kioko1884 Barotse1888 Ganda1891 Tumbuka1891 Chichewa1897 Bemba1902 Nyanja1902 Rwanda1902 Lingala1903 Sepedi1905 Ila1907 Lamba1907 Chewa1908 Venda1908 Ngoni1911 Munchi1913 Meru1921 Yao1924 Lozi1937 Nguni1939 Ndembu1945 Mwera1947 Sango1948 Ovambo1953 Sukuma1969 Tiv1976 1907 E. W. Smith Handbk. Ila Lang. ii. 300 There is a large number of languages which contain the name Leza... Thus: Lesa in Lamba, Sodi, Luba, Bemba, Bisa; while Luba (Congo), Subia, Tonga, and Ila have Leza. 1919 H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. iii. 207 Lala-Lamba is spoken..east and north of the Kafue watershed. 1937 I. Schapera Bantu-speaking Tribes S. Afr. xiv. 314 In Lamba (Central Bantu) the word is umusi. 1948 M. Guthrie Classif. Bantu Lang. 78 Nlamba, iki—(Ilamba). 1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) ii. 51 Ilamba, a language of Tanganyika. 1956 J. Lotz in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 9/2 In certain languages the whole sentence is constructed in a single syntactic key..as in Ilamba of Northern Rhodesia. b. A member of the Lamba people. Chiefly as plural, regarded collectively. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples Swahili1814 Chagga1823 Mashona1835 Wagogo1840 Wachagga1849 Tumbuka1850 Sukuma1860 Wanyamwezi1860 Babemba1867 Kavirondo1870 Nyamwezi1885 Bemba1887 Chewa1887 Shangaan1887 Rwanda1889 Awemba1890 Yao1894 Ngoni1899 Nyanja1899 Kisii1905 Ganda1906 Meru1908 Lamba1909 Hutu1922 Lozi1935 Ila1956 Gogo1957 1909 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 8 332 The three tribes living in the district..are the Lala, the Lamba, and the Wambo-Senga. 1931 C. M. Doke (title) The Lambas of Northern Rhodesia. A study of their customs and beliefs. 1950 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown & C. D. Forde Afr. Syst. Kinship & Marriage 221 The Lamba on the Kafue river seem to have a very similar family system. 1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society viii. 255 Among the Lamba of the Ndola District of Northern Rhodesia..traceable cross-cousin marriages formed an extremely low proportion of the total marriages recorded. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11729adj.n.21893 |
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