单词 | manobo |
释义 | Manobon.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a group of proto-Malay peoples of Mindanao in the Philippines. Π 1898 Amer. Anthropologist 11 297 ‘Manobos’ is a vague name now applied to any of the wild tribes of Malayan origin in the interior of Mindanao. 1942 H. W. Kreiger Peoples of Philippines 48 There are houses of the dead..among the Manobo in eastern Mindanao. 1964 Anthropos 59 78 The Manobos are proto-Malays, but those on Kularnan Plateau are far from exhibiting a pure racial type. 1968 R. M. Lopez (title) Agricultural practices of the Manobo in the interior of Southwestern Cotabato: Mindaneo. 1999 Business World (Philippines) (Nexis) 16 June 4 These ethnic groups [around the Gulf of Davao] are the Bagobos, Mandayas, Samal, Manobos and Mansakan. 2. Any of various dialects comprising a subdivision of the Southern Philippine subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > southern Philippines Manobo1912 Maranao1962 Tasaday1971 Tasaday1971 1912 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. 7 a. 110 [Sacred jars] called..in Manobo bahandi. 1992 J. A. Matisoff in W. Bright Internat. Encycl. Ling. IV. 53/1 Bagobo: 17,000 speakers reported in 1975... Distinct from Manobo. B. adj. Of or relating to the Manobo or their language. Π 1912 Philippine Jrnl. Sci. 7 a. 111 The Mangguangan..becomes quarrelsome in his cups, especially with members of the Mandaya and Manobo tribes. 1927 Amer. Anthropologist 29 590 A study of Manobo religion is difficult because of the natural secretiveness and suspiciousness of this primitive man. 1968 Ethnology 7 180 Matrix technique applied to Manobo kinship results in dimensional displays which give a rapid insight into the structure of the system. 1976 Sci. Amer. Oct. 140/3 From Northern Mindanao in the Philippines comes a long, moving tale in the Manobo tongue. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 51 (table) Austronesian languages..Manobo dialects 320,000 [spoken in] Mindanao. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1898 |
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