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单词 padaung
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Padaungn.adj.

Brit. /pəˈdaʊŋ/, U.S. /pəˈdaʊŋ/
Inflections: Plural Padaungs, unchanged.
Forms: 1800s– Padaung, 1800s– Padoung.
Origin: A borrowing from Padaung. Etymon: Padaung padaung.
Etymology: < Padaung padaung, self-designation.
A. n.
1. A member of a people of the southern Shan region of Burma (Myanmar).
ΚΠ
1862 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 32 192 They call themselves Lat-kta and Padoung.
1900 W. H. L. Cabell in J. G. Scott Gazetteer Upper Burma & Shan States I. ix. 535 The country of the Padaungs covers a lesser area than that of the Brès.
1908 Imperial Gazetteer India (new ed.) XVII. 406 The population of the State in 1901 was 19,351, distributed in 158 villages, and consists of Padaungs, Zayeins, Taungthus, and other Karen tribes, besides a few Shans.
1942 J. L. Christian Modern Burma 21 A unique group who have been on exhibition in Europe and America are the Padaungs, who live in the protected Karenni States.
1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 Dec. h5 The Padaung are an endangered people. In flight from their home in the remote jungles of central Burma, the tribe is trying to escape the Burmese government's campaign to end the Padaung tradition of long-necked women.
2. The Tibeto-Burman language of the Padaungs.
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1962 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 22 121/1 The remainder, Taungthu, Bwe, and Padaung, are found in the east hills of the Sittang, extending into Thailand.
1978 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 41 631/2 The author says that their language is a mixture of ‘Ghekù’..and Padaung.
1996 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Oct. t2 Paschal graduated with a 2/2 in English literature—a remarkable performance for someone whose first language is Padaung.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the Padaungs or their language.
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1907 Geogr. Jrnl. 30 432 (caption) Padaung’ woman and child, south Shan states, Burma.
1908 Imperial Gazetteer India (new ed.) XVII. 407 The Padaung speakers numbered 9,321, the Shan speakers 2,827, and the Taungthu speakers 1,416.
1936 M. Hoffman Heads & Tales 293 Three members of this remote Padaung tribe, in which the women wear on their necks and legs brass rings..were imported to America by the Ringling circus company in 1933.
1972 Guinness Bk. Records (ed. 19) 20/2 The maximum measured extension of the neck by the successive fitting of copper coils, as practised by the Padaung or Mayan people of Burma, is 15¾ inches.
1996 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 20 May 66 Padaung women step awkwardly from stall to stall, peddling pans of dried, salted lake fish.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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