单词 | newari |
释义 | Newariadj.n. A. adj. Of or relating to the Newars or their language. Cf. Newar adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Tibet and Nepal > [adjective] > peoples of Nepal Newar1811 Newari1877 Gurung1928 Tamang1962 the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [adjective] > Tibeto-Burman Newari1877 Tibeto-Burman1878 Tibeto-Burmese1974 1877 D. Wright Hist. Nepal App. vii. 306 (heading) Newārī songs. 1950 Far Eastern Q. 9 153 They [sc. the Kirantis] were expelled by the Newari dynasty of the Malla Rajas. 1990 Orientations Apr. 59/2 Both gods have also been revered by the non-Newari Hindu population of the valley. 2002 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 1 Oct. An illustrated Pali Buddhist text in Newari Script from 11th century. B. n. The Tibeto-Burman language of the Newars.Now also called Nepal Bhasa lit. ‘language of the Kathmandu valley’, chiefly in Nepal. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > Tibeto-Burman > miscellaneous Tibeto-Burman languages Magar1811 Tibetan1822 Bhotia1824 Tibetic1833 Lepcha1840 Gurung1874 Murmi1874 Tibeto-Himalayan1875 Rong1892 Dzongkha1909 Lahu1909 Lisu1909 Newari1928 Thakali1974 Tamang1977 1928 P. Landon Nepal II. App. xvi. 236 He was buried in the little Christian cemetery with an inscription in two languages, Latin and Newari. 1956 J. Heyman in S. Maron et al. Surv. Nepal Society x. 186 The dynasty that ruled Kathmandu Valley at the time encouraged the use of Newari as a written, as well as spoken, language. 1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 208 Spoken in 1952–4 by close on 400,000 persons in Nepal, Newari is the only Himalayan language of the Tibeto-Burman group to have developed a considerable literature. 1997 L. Stassen Intransitive Predication ix. 295 Classical Newari had a system of simple verbal forms which were marked by suffixes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1877 |
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