单词 | luluai |
释义 | luluain. New Guinea. A man appointed by the administration to be responsible for the maintenance of order in a village; a village headman. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > those in authority > person in authority > head or chief > of a village or community starosta1591 patel1630 malik1662 penghulu1705 aksakal1811 ratemahatmaya1818 caboceer1836 lambardar1855 thugyi1863 princeps1874 capitao1884 omda1898 luluai1924 big man1927 kadkhoda1934 mukhiya1934 sarpanch1963 headman1997 society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > native in Papua luluai1924 village constable1924 1924 J. Ainsworth Rep. Admin. Arrangem. Natives New Guinea 17/1 in Austral. Parl. Papers 1923–4 IV. 1819 A luluai or kukurai is the political head of the particular section of which he is either the hereditary or appointed headman. 1930 M. Mead Growing up in New Guinea 372 Luluai, headman of village. 1937 Official Handbk. New Guinea iv. 302 For the purpose of local government, the Administration has appointed two native representatives in each village. The senior of these is called a ‘luluai’ and the junior, his assistant, a ‘tul-tul’. The work of the luluai is that of a village headman. 1957 M. West Kundu v. 63 There is a luluai in every village appointed by the Kiap in Goroka. 1965 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 10 Oct. 2 In the next village the headman, the ‘luluai’, had a wife who was dying of kuru. 1970 L. P. Mair Austral. in New Guinea (ed. 2) v. 72 The native authorities were known..as luluais..and tultuls... The luluais are responsible for good order and control in the villages. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1924 |
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