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单词 bakongo
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Bakongoadj.n.

Brit. /baˈkɒŋɡəʊ/, U.S. /bæˈkɑŋɡoʊ/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Bakongos.
Forms: 1800s Ba Kongo, 1800s Ba-kongo, 1800s– Ba-Congo, 1800s– Ba-Kongo, 1800s– Bacongo, 1800s– Bakongo, 1900s– Bakoongo, 1900s– ba-Kongo, 1900s– BaKongo. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Kongo. Etymon: Kongo bakôngo.
Etymology: < Kongo bakôngo < ba- , plural class prefix denoting people + -kôngo , the name of the Kingdom of Kongo (see Kongo n.). Compare earlier Kongo adj. and Kongo n. 1.Kongo bakôngo is a plural form; English plural forms with -s are a secondary development. In Kongo, the singular is mukôngo . Compare also esikôngo , basikôngo , denoting the same people (incorporating the element -isi- earth, land: see discussion at Kongo adj.).
A. adj.
Of or relating to the Bakongo (see sense B.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo > [adjective]
Kongo1597
Bakongo1840
Lugbara1907
Luba1957
1840 London Med. Gaz. 18 Sept. 976/1 (heading) Autopsia of a boy of the Bacongo tribe.
1884 H. H. Johnston River Congo xvi. 400 The Ba-kongo group is split up into several separate tribes, all of which, however, speak more or less the same tongue.
1959 Listener 15 Jan. 92/2 The Bakongo people of Leopoldville.
1973 Times 27 May 18/3 A Bakongo wooden fetish figure was sold for £17,000.
2011 Hist. Archaeol. 45 166 Similar marks were used in ritual contexts in the Bakongo territory.
B. n.
A member of a people living in the region along the lower Congo river; (also) this people. Cf. Kongo n. 1.The Bakongo 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 Bakongo populations in areas such as the United States, South America, and the Caribbean.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of the Democratic Republic of the Congo > [noun]
Kongo1600
Bakongo1877
Kioko1884
Mongo1906
Lugbara1908
Luba1997
1877 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 17 Nov. 2/6 Neither Bacongo nor Basundi, I feel convinced, will use force to oppose him, and there is no cause to feel frightened by big words.
1891 H. Ward Five Years with Congo Cannibals (ed. 3) iii. 33 I was leading about four hundred Bakongo down country by forced marches.
1974 B. Pearce tr. S. Amin Accumulation on World Scale II. ii. 376 In the Congo, when independence came, the ethnic groups most affected by the development of capitalism, the Bakongo and Baluba, immediately organized their provinces into a national state.
2002 Financial Times 28 May 7/2 The smouldering conflict is..exposing raw nerves, particularly among ethnic Bakongos from Pool and some of Brazzaville's southern suburbs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.n.1840
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