Nuban.adj.

Brit.

/ˈnjuːbə/,

/ˈnuːbə/, U.S.

/ˈnubə/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, Nubas.

Forms: 1700s– Nuba, 1800s Nouba.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly from a proper name. Etymons: Latin Nūba; proper name Nuba.

Etymology: Partly < classical Latin Nūba, singular corresponding to Nūbae (see Nubian n. and adj.), and partly < the name of the Nuba Hills or Mountains, southern Kordofan, Sudan. Compare Arabic Nūba (see note), Dār Nūba, lit. ‘Nuba home’, name of the mountainous area of southern Kordofan settled by the Nuba.According to Encycl. Islam (new ed., 1995) at Nūba, ‘The term Nūba was originally applied by the Arabs to the Nile Nubians and later extended to cover other enslaved groups. It has since come to represent an ambiguous linguistic designation based on geography. About 50 tribes living in the Nūba Mountains (Dār Nūba)..can be denoted as Nūba. Many are from diverse racial and linguistic backgrounds, having fled to the region as a result of the Arab slave trade of the 17th–19th centuries.’

A. n.

1. Esp. in early use: a Nubian (cf. Nubian n. 2). In later use: a member of any of several loosely related peoples, originally from the Nile region, now principally inhabiting the Nuba Mountains in southern Kordofan, Sudan, and the surrounding foothills.In some quots. the sense is confused or unclear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Sudan > [noun]

Kababish1790

Nuba1790

Shilluk1790

Fulani1839

Nuer1861

Hausa1879

Uduk1927

1715 L. Echard Classical Geogr. Dict. (at cited word) Nuba, an Ancient People of Æthiopia, thence Nubia.]

1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile IV. vii. 419 At nine we halted at a village of Pagan Nuba. These are all soldiers of the Mek of Sennaar.

1827 J. Conder Mod. Traveller: Egypt, Nubia, & Abyssinia II. 242 The male Noubas, in Egypt as well as in Arabia, are preferred to all others for labour.

a1846 H. Murray Encycl. Geogr. (1852) III. 579 The troops amounted to 14,000, consisting chiefly of a race of negroes, called Nuba, occupying the country between Sennaar and Abyssinia.

1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 102 There are two main divisions of the Nuba race: the Nubas proper of Kordofan, found also dispersedly in Dar-Fur; and the Nile Nubas, commonly called Nubians in European books of travel, but who now call themselves Barabra. By the latter the term Nuba has been rejected.

1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. iii. 122 When a Nuba of north-eastern Africa goes to El Obeid for the first time, he tells his wife not to wash or oil herself.

1949 J. S. Trimingham Islam in Sudan i. 3 Here live the settled ‘Arab’ population of Kordofān, the Baqqāra cattle-breeding Arabs, the pastoral negroid Shilluk, and the pagan Nūba in the hills.

1966 C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush iii. 46 The Nuba of Kordofan..say that it was the baboon that stole the Kako's (hyrax's) tail.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Sept. 29/1 One of her guardian angels..led her to a newspaper picture of the Nubas, a Sudanese tribe she fell in love with.

2. The mostly Kordofanian languages of the Nuba, regarded as a unit.The term is no longer part of accepted linguistic classification, but a loose geographical designation.

ΚΠ

1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 107 Fur, the dominant race in Dar-Fur, to which country it gives its name; speech appears to be akin to Nuba.

1910 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 9 294 Some of these [languages classified by Lepsius in the Nuba-Fula group]..are now placed in the Hamitic family, while others, such as Nuba, are ‘Sudanese’ tongues.

1954 Gospel in Many Tongues (Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc.) 124 Nuba: Heiban. Southern Sudan... Nuba: Moro. Southern Sudan.

1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 330/2 The name Nuba does not designate various forms of a single language. Rather it is a collective geographical term.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of, relating to, or designating any of the peoples called Nuba, or their languages.

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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Sudan > [adjective]

Fula1794

Fellata1820

Fulani1839

Nuba1855

Pullo1856

Fulbe1857

Uduk1927

Peul1935

1855 Biblical Repertory Oct. 672 Of the Nuba language Lepsius says in particular, it has a character quite different from the Arabic, even in its prime elements, its system of vowels and consonants.

1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 104 In his masterly treatise on the Nubian language..Lepsius..has shown that the speech of both branches of the Nuba race is identical... The conjoined list of a few common words in the Dongolawi of the Nile and in four Kordofan dialects shows that the vocabulary also is essentially one.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 907/2 In the northern hills [of Kordofan] are communities of black people... They speak Arabic and are called Nuba Arabs.

1970 Man, Myth, & Magic v. 138/3 Victorious Nuba wrestlers are awarded branches which are burnt; the wrestler covers himself with the ashes before the next fight.

1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 26/3 In Sudan, the Nuba people face deportation, harrassment and religious intolerance as their fertile land is swallowed up by agribusiness and mechanised farming.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	nuba
释义	Nuban.adj. Brit. /ˈnjuːbə/, /ˈnuːbə/, U.S. /ˈnubə/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, Nubas. Forms: 1700s– Nuba, 1800s Nouba. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly from a proper name. Etymons: Latin Nūba; proper name Nuba. Etymology: Partly < classical Latin Nūba, singular corresponding to Nūbae (see Nubian n. and adj.), and partly < the name of the Nuba Hills or Mountains, southern Kordofan, Sudan. Compare Arabic Nūba (see note), Dār Nūba, lit. ‘Nuba home’, name of the mountainous area of southern Kordofan settled by the Nuba.According to Encycl. Islam (new ed., 1995) at Nūba, ‘The term Nūba was originally applied by the Arabs to the Nile Nubians and later extended to cover other enslaved groups. It has since come to represent an ambiguous linguistic designation based on geography. About 50 tribes living in the Nūba Mountains (Dār Nūba)..can be denoted as Nūba. Many are from diverse racial and linguistic backgrounds, having fled to the region as a result of the Arab slave trade of the 17th–19th centuries.’ A. n. 1. Esp. in early use: a Nubian (cf. Nubian n. 2). In later use: a member of any of several loosely related peoples, originally from the Nile region, now principally inhabiting the Nuba Mountains in southern Kordofan, Sudan, and the surrounding foothills.In some quots. the sense is confused or unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Sudan > [noun] Kababish1790 Nuba1790 Shilluk1790 Fulani1839 Nuer1861 Hausa1879 Uduk1927 1715 L. Echard Classical Geogr. Dict. (at cited word) Nuba, an Ancient People of Æthiopia, thence Nubia.] 1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile IV. vii. 419 At nine we halted at a village of Pagan Nuba. These are all soldiers of the Mek of Sennaar. 1827 J. Conder Mod. Traveller: Egypt, Nubia, & Abyssinia II. 242 The male Noubas, in Egypt as well as in Arabia, are preferred to all others for labour. a1846 H. Murray Encycl. Geogr. (1852) III. 579 The troops amounted to 14,000, consisting chiefly of a race of negroes, called Nuba, occupying the country between Sennaar and Abyssinia. 1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 102 There are two main divisions of the Nuba race: the Nubas proper of Kordofan, found also dispersedly in Dar-Fur; and the Nile Nubas, commonly called Nubians in European books of travel, but who now call themselves Barabra. By the latter the term Nuba has been rejected. 1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. iii. 122 When a Nuba of north-eastern Africa goes to El Obeid for the first time, he tells his wife not to wash or oil herself. 1949 J. S. Trimingham Islam in Sudan i. 3 Here live the settled ‘Arab’ population of Kordofān, the Baqqāra cattle-breeding Arabs, the pastoral negroid Shilluk, and the pagan Nūba in the hills. 1966 C. Sweeney Scurrying Bush iii. 46 The Nuba of Kordofan..say that it was the baboon that stole the Kako's (hyrax's) tail. 1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Sept. 29/1 One of her guardian angels..led her to a newspaper picture of the Nubas, a Sudanese tribe she fell in love with. 2. The mostly Kordofanian languages of the Nuba, regarded as a unit.The term is no longer part of accepted linguistic classification, but a loose geographical designation. ΚΠ 1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 107 Fur, the dominant race in Dar-Fur, to which country it gives its name; speech appears to be akin to Nuba. 1910 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 9 294 Some of these [languages classified by Lepsius in the Nuba-Fula group]..are now placed in the Hamitic family, while others, such as Nuba, are ‘Sudanese’ tongues. 1954 Gospel in Many Tongues (Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc.) 124 Nuba: Heiban. Southern Sudan... Nuba: Moro. Southern Sudan. 1972 Bk. Thousand Tongues (United Bible Soc.) (rev. ed.) 330/2 The name Nuba does not designate various forms of a single language. Rather it is a collective geographical term. B. adj. (attributive). Of, relating to, or designating any of the peoples called Nuba, or their languages. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Sudan > [adjective] Fula1794 Fellata1820 Fulani1839 Nuba1855 Pullo1856 Fulbe1857 Uduk1927 Peul1935 1855 Biblical Repertory Oct. 672 Of the Nuba language Lepsius says in particular, it has a character quite different from the Arabic, even in its prime elements, its system of vowels and consonants. 1885 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 14 104 In his masterly treatise on the Nubian language..Lepsius..has shown that the speech of both branches of the Nuba race is identical... The conjoined list of a few common words in the Dongolawi of the Nile and in four Kordofan dialects shows that the vocabulary also is essentially one. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 907/2 In the northern hills [of Kordofan] are communities of black people... They speak Arabic and are called Nuba Arabs. 1970 Man, Myth, & Magic v. 138/3 Victorious Nuba wrestlers are awarded branches which are burnt; the wrestler covers himself with the ashes before the next fight. 1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 26/3 In Sudan, the Nuba people face deportation, harrassment and religious intolerance as their fertile land is swallowed up by agribusiness and mechanised farming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1790
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