单词 | mleccha |
释义 | Mlecchan. Originally, in ancient India: a non-Aryan or person of an outcaste race; a barbarian. In later use: a person who does not conform with conventional Hindu beliefs and practices; a foreigner. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [noun] > other peoples of India > person Jat1622 Maratha1744 Moplah1787 Mleccha1793 Gurkha1811 Swati1815 Naga1835 Manipuri1837 Malayali1856 Ho1860 Mahsud1873 Adivasi1941 1793 F. Wilford in Asiatick Researches 3 317 On those hills the Pallis..are supposed to live,..though intermixed with some Mléch'has, or people who speak a barbarous dialect. 1887 R. Kipling What People Said in Departmental Ditties (1888) 69 God..sent the Mahratta spear As he sendeth the rain, And the Mlech, in the fated year. 1924 Blackwood's Mag. 216 227/2 My first charge of a college was in Bengal... It was in the period of the ‘Golden Bengal’ movement, and I, as the hated Mleccha, was unpopular. 1992 N. Bhattacharya Hem & Football vii. 82 Mother..had confirmed from the local priest that football was a game of the mlechha whites and it had never figured in any of our holy books. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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