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单词 malagache
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Malagachen.adj.

Brit. /ˈmaləɡaʃ/, U.S. /ˈmɑləɡæʃ/
Inflections: Plural Malagache(e)s, unchanged.
Forms: 1700s Malegass, 1700s Mallegass, 1700s–1800s Malegash, 1800s– Malagash, 1900s– Malagache, 1900s– Malagask.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French Malegasse, Mallegasse, malégache.
Etymology: < French †Malegasse, †Mallegasse (1651), †malégache (1769) (later malgache (1773)) < Malagasy Malagasi Malagasy adj. and n. Compare Madagass n. and Madagascar n.The origin of the /ʃ/ of the second syllable is uncertain; it might be dialectal (the sound does not exist in standard Malagasy) or an innovation in French. French malgache is considered by many Malagasies to be an offensive mispronunciation, intended to link the word with French mal bad and gâcher to ruin.
A. n.
= Malagasy n. b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Southern Indian Ocean Islands > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Madagascar
Madagascarian1698
Madagass1711
Malagache1711
Madagascrian1824
Malagasy1838
Madagascan1890
1711 tr. Cauche's Voy. Madagascar 40 In the Province of Matatan, Neighbouring on that of the Mallegasses or Madegasses.
1711 tr. Cauche's Voy. Madagascar 56 The Malegasses.
1793 J. Trapp tr. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 40 The Malegashes know but two ways of dressing their meat.
1833 W. F. W. Owen et al. Narr. Voy. Afr., Arabia, Madagascar II. ix. 100 A large population of Malegash and Arabs.
1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. II. 357 The Tangina poison of the Malagash.
1917 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 47 135 When Grandidier says that the ‘loom of the Malagashes is identical with that of the Indo-Oceanic peoples’ he goes much too far.
1931 Sci. Monthly Apr. 331 (caption) Other peoples may look upon grasshoppers as a cruel visitation of providence. Not so the Malagash; to them it means a period of feasting.
1969 R. C. Bell Board & Table Games (ed. 2) II. ii. 25 Work through the following game played by two Malagasks and reported..in 1896.
B. adj.
= Malagasy adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [adjective] > East Africa > Madagascar
Madagascarian1793
Malagache1793
Malagasy1835
Madagascarene1856
Madagascan1886
1793 J. Trapp tr. Rochon Voy. Madagascar 52 The Malegash language.
1833 W. F. W. Owen et al. Narr. Voy. Afr., Arabia, Madagascar II. ix. 100 The style of their buildings..is one-half Arab and the other Malegash.
1930 Science 30 May p. xii/1 The second name [sc. intisy] is one of the native Malagash words used to designate both the plant and the rubber taken from it.
1933 D. Reitz Trekking On ii. 40 Malagache oxen are on the small side.
1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) v. 246 Malaya–Polynesian affinities have been claimed for the Malagache language of Madagascar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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