mokoron.

Brit.

/məˈkɔːrəʊ/, U.S.

/məˈkɔroʊ/

Forms: 1800s mokorro, 1900s– makora, 1900s– makoro, 1900s– makorro, 1900s– mekoro, 1900s– mokoro.

Origin: A borrowing from Tswana. Etymon: Tswana mokoro.

Etymology: < Tswana mokoro (1856 or earlier in Noka ea Mokoròn (lake of boats) recorded as a name (for Lake Ngami)). Compare:1835 A. Smith Diary 4 Nov. (1940) II. 271 One of the Bakalahari..calls the lake Macori from the name given to the boats.

A dugout canoe.Originally and chiefly with reference to such a canoe used by the peoples of the Okavango Swamps in Botswana.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out

troughc893

cot1537

monoxylon1555

toni1582

piragua1599

pitpan1726

log-canoe1752

monoxyle1775

corial1796

dugout1819

montaria1853

lakatoi1885

mokoro1897

doonga1905

curiara1910

1897 A. Schulz & A. Hammar New Afr. xi. 136 I..showed his sketches to the natives... A picture of a ‘mokorro’ (canoe) on the Upper Chobe sent them into wild delight.

1912 A. W. Hodson Trekking Great Thirst ix. 158 To cross [the river], it was necessary to take the wagons to pieces, and to ferry the different parts over in native mekoro.

1928 E. H. L. Schwarz Kalahari & its Native Races 45 In order to get to his shop, customers from the main road had to be ferried across in makoras.

1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1961) vii. 123 I knew that close by there lived the remnants of a race of dug-out or makorro men.

1986 Motorist (Johannesburg) 3rd Quarter 12 You can..take an inexpensive 16-minute flight to one of several camps that offer mokoro trips.

2000 World & I (Electronic ed.) Jan. 212 We were taken by mokoro (a dugout canoe traditionally made of jackalberry wood but now mostly fiberglass) along labyrinthine channels.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mokoro
释义	mokoron. Brit. /məˈkɔːrəʊ/, U.S. /məˈkɔroʊ/ Forms: 1800s mokorro, 1900s– makora, 1900s– makoro, 1900s– makorro, 1900s– mekoro, 1900s– mokoro. Origin: A borrowing from Tswana. Etymon: Tswana mokoro. Etymology: < Tswana mokoro (1856 or earlier in Noka ea Mokoròn (lake of boats) recorded as a name (for Lake Ngami)). Compare:1835 A. Smith Diary 4 Nov. (1940) II. 271 One of the Bakalahari..calls the lake Macori from the name given to the boats. A dugout canoe.Originally and chiefly with reference to such a canoe used by the peoples of the Okavango Swamps in Botswana. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > dug-out troughc893 cot1537 monoxylon1555 toni1582 piragua1599 pitpan1726 log-canoe1752 monoxyle1775 corial1796 dugout1819 montaria1853 lakatoi1885 mokoro1897 doonga1905 curiara1910 1897 A. Schulz & A. Hammar New Afr. xi. 136 I..showed his sketches to the natives... A picture of a ‘mokorro’ (canoe) on the Upper Chobe sent them into wild delight. 1912 A. W. Hodson Trekking Great Thirst ix. 158 To cross [the river], it was necessary to take the wagons to pieces, and to ferry the different parts over in native mekoro. 1928 E. H. L. Schwarz Kalahari & its Native Races 45 In order to get to his shop, customers from the main road had to be ferried across in makoras. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1961) vii. 123 I knew that close by there lived the remnants of a race of dug-out or makorro men. 1986 Motorist (Johannesburg) 3rd Quarter 12 You can..take an inexpensive 16-minute flight to one of several camps that offer mokoro trips. 2000 World & I (Electronic ed.) Jan. 212 We were taken by mokoro (a dugout canoe traditionally made of jackalberry wood but now mostly fiberglass) along labyrinthine channels. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1897
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