playan.

Brit.

/ˈplʌɪə/, U.S.

/ˈplaɪə/

Forms: 1600s 1800s plaia, 1600s– playa.

Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish playa.

Etymology: < Spanish playa shore, beach, coast (c1250; compare Mozarabic 'ablâya (1154)) < post-classical Latin plagia plage n.³ Compare Old Occitan playa (c1300; Occitan plaja ), Catalan platja (1283 as plagia ), plaja (late 13th cent.). Compare earlier pley n.

a. Originally and chiefly in Spanish-speaking countries: a beach (on the sea shore or on a river bank).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > beach or foreshore

strand plat1582

beach1600

playa1600

wash1614

foreshore1764

sublittoral1886

shore zone1921

midlittoral1948

1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations III. 618 If you went by land to the riuer of Panuco, you shall haue many mouthes or openings of plaias or strands.

1777 F. Carter Journey Gibraltar to Malaga II. 252 Tempted by the commodiousness of the Playa, which..is a very safe road for boats and small vessels.

1790 W. Reveley tr. M. Costansó Hist. Jrnl. Exped. N. of Calif. 52 From the Point of this Bay the Coast runs NW and SE..and full of Playas and some abrupt Cliffs.

1827 C. Friend in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1853) 23 193 Passed several small falls. Stopped at a playa and slept in a rancho.

1856 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 26 178 The coast-line is formed by three great playas or sandy beaches.

1856 ‘J. Phoenix’ Phoenixiana 202 Three other small buildings,..a fence, and a grave-yard, constitute all the ‘improvements’ that have been made at the ‘Playa’.

1857 in Amer. Speech (1941) 16 265 The following is a list of words and phrases frequently used in English conversation in California, and not unfrequently quoted in California newspapers:..Playa, beach.

1874 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 5 149 Upon the muddy banks and sandy playas enormous alligators sleep in the sun.

1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 581/1 They turned eastward..keeping to the playas, or little beaches.

1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad i. 14 I think I shall go down to the playa and bathe.

1966 M. Steen Looking Glass viii. 160 Little lights of fishing boats far away down on the playa [in Málaga].

1988 Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. There are several excellent sandy playas unknown to tourists.

b. Esp. in Puerto Rico: a stretch of flat alluvial land bordering a river or estuary. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun]

sea-warthc888

sea-rimOE

sea-strandc1000

sandc1275

rive1296

bankc1350

sea-banka1375

sea-coasta1400

coastc1400

warthc1450

ripec1475

landsidec1515

seashore1526

banksidec1540

brinish brink1594

shorea1616

ore1652

outland1698

sea beach1742

table-shore1849

playa1898

treaty coast1899

treaty shore1901

beach1903

1898 R. T. Hill Cuba & Porto Rico v. 48 Occasionally a few acres of playa, or low alluvial land, may be found around the harbors, but the rivers are free from wide bottoms, and the land as a whole stands well above the sea.

1900 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 32 39 There is practically no coastal border on the north other than alluvial playas, or back-coast border at the mouths of rivers. These extend inland from two to three miles as fertile plains of triangular shape.

1934 Geogr. Rev. 24 184 (caption) Cane fields occupy the alluvial plain, playa, of the Río Culebrinas.

1972 Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst.) 548/1 Playa, a flat, alluvial coastland, as distinguished from a beach.

2. Physical Geography (originally U.S.). A flat area of silt or sand, free of vegetation and usually characterized by salt deposits, that lies at the bottom of a desert basin and is dry except after rain. Also: = playa lake n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > saline depression

salinec1450

pan1494

salt-pan1494

salt-wich1610

salina1697

salt-pond1697

playa1854

sabkha1878

shor1888

the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types

pene-lake1668

salina1697

slough1714

salt lake1763

bayou1766

lagoon1769

cut-off1773

prairie1820

maar1826

boating lake1834

serpentine1837

soda lake1839

bitter lake1843

stream-lake1867

shott1878

crater-lake1879

playa1885

oxbow lake1887

kettle-hole lake1902

mortlake1902

oxbow1902

seepage lake1934

paternoster lake1942

soda pan1976

1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents I. 246 The playas..seemed to have an extent of twenty-five or thirty miles.

1856 in Publ. S. Calif. Hist. Soc. (1928) XIV. 124 We..stopped 1½ hours at the wagon & took breakfast & then pushed on to the playa & went ahead to hunt for water.

1885 I. C. Russell in Monogr. U.S. Geol. Surv. 11 10 Other lakes, which indicate still more pointedly the contrast between an arid and a humid climate, we may call playa lakes. These are sheets of shallow water, covering many square miles in winter season, but evaporating to dryness during the summer, their beds becoming hard, smooth mud-plains or playas.

1939 P. G. Worcester Textbk. Geomorphol. ix. 246 Ancient playas which have not been covered with water for many years are likely to have quite irregular surfaces.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 6 The lakes of southern Oregon and northern California already mentioned are shallow playas.

1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) iv. 242 He crossed a dry gypsum playa where the salt crust stove under the horse's hooves like trodden isinglass.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as playa deposit, playa flat, playa mud, playa plain, etc.

ΚΠ

1884 Science 18 July 64/2 Then it dried away gradually and probably completely, and its residual salt was buried beneath fine clay, or ‘playa deposits’.

1939 P. G. Worcester Textbk. Geomorphol. ix. 247 Two types of sloping plains usually connect the borders of desert basins with the flat central playa plains. These are bajadas and pediments.

1973 Nature 20 July 145/1 The Triassic sabkhas were not all coastal sabkhas, or tidal flats, some may have been continental sabkhas, or playa flats.

1999 Rock & Gem Dec. 69/2 Fierce winds..push the rocks across slippery playa muds when they are saturated by rare episodes of Death Valley precipitation.

C2.

playa lake n. a temporary lake formed in a playa (sense 2) after rain.

ΚΠ

1883 I. C. Russell in Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 381 The lakes that cover playas at certain times..may with convenience be designated as playa-lakes, as they have many features peculiar to themselves.

1975 A. L. McAlester & E. A. Hay Physical Geol. x. 330 In arid regions..intermittent playa lakes are formed by infrequent downpours and quickly dry up, leaving an accumulation of evaporites.

2005 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 23 Jan. 6 c The club has access to about 30,000 acres of hunting land, including playa lakes and other small waterholes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	playa
释义	playan. Brit. /ˈplʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈplaɪə/ Forms: 1600s 1800s plaia, 1600s– playa. Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish playa. Etymology: < Spanish playa shore, beach, coast (c1250; compare Mozarabic 'ablâya (1154)) < post-classical Latin plagia plage n.³ Compare Old Occitan playa (c1300; Occitan plaja ), Catalan platja (1283 as plagia ), plaja (late 13th cent.). Compare earlier pley n. 1. a. Originally and chiefly in Spanish-speaking countries: a beach (on the sea shore or on a river bank). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > beach or foreshore strand plat1582 beach1600 playa1600 wash1614 foreshore1764 sublittoral1886 shore zone1921 midlittoral1948 1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations III. 618 If you went by land to the riuer of Panuco, you shall haue many mouthes or openings of plaias or strands. 1777 F. Carter Journey Gibraltar to Malaga II. 252 Tempted by the commodiousness of the Playa, which..is a very safe road for boats and small vessels. 1790 W. Reveley tr. M. Costansó Hist. Jrnl. Exped. N. of Calif. 52 From the Point of this Bay the Coast runs NW and SE..and full of Playas and some abrupt Cliffs. 1827 C. Friend in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1853) 23 193 Passed several small falls. Stopped at a playa and slept in a rancho. 1856 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 26 178 The coast-line is formed by three great playas or sandy beaches. 1856 ‘J. Phoenix’ Phoenixiana 202 Three other small buildings,..a fence, and a grave-yard, constitute all the ‘improvements’ that have been made at the ‘Playa’. 1857 in Amer. Speech (1941) 16 265 The following is a list of words and phrases frequently used in English conversation in California, and not unfrequently quoted in California newspapers:..Playa, beach. 1874 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 5 149 Upon the muddy banks and sandy playas enormous alligators sleep in the sun. 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 581/1 They turned eastward..keeping to the playas, or little beaches. 1934 R. Macaulay Going Abroad i. 14 I think I shall go down to the playa and bathe. 1966 M. Steen Looking Glass viii. 160 Little lights of fishing boats far away down on the playa [in Málaga]. 1988 Times (Nexis) 25 Sept. There are several excellent sandy playas unknown to tourists. b. Esp. in Puerto Rico: a stretch of flat alluvial land bordering a river or estuary. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] sea-warthc888 sea-rimOE sea-strandc1000 sandc1275 rive1296 bankc1350 sea-banka1375 sea-coasta1400 coastc1400 warthc1450 ripec1475 landsidec1515 seashore1526 banksidec1540 brinish brink1594 shorea1616 ore1652 outland1698 sea beach1742 table-shore1849 playa1898 treaty coast1899 treaty shore1901 beach1903 1898 R. T. Hill Cuba & Porto Rico v. 48 Occasionally a few acres of playa, or low alluvial land, may be found around the harbors, but the rivers are free from wide bottoms, and the land as a whole stands well above the sea. 1900 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 32 39 There is practically no coastal border on the north other than alluvial playas, or back-coast border at the mouths of rivers. These extend inland from two to three miles as fertile plains of triangular shape. 1934 Geogr. Rev. 24 184 (caption) Cane fields occupy the alluvial plain, playa, of the Río Culebrinas. 1972 Gloss. Geol. (Amer. Geol. Inst.) 548/1 Playa, a flat, alluvial coastland, as distinguished from a beach. 2. Physical Geography (originally U.S.). A flat area of silt or sand, free of vegetation and usually characterized by salt deposits, that lies at the bottom of a desert basin and is dry except after rain. Also: = playa lake n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > saline depression salinec1450 pan1494 salt-pan1494 salt-wich1610 salina1697 salt-pond1697 playa1854 sabkha1878 shor1888 the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types pene-lake1668 salina1697 slough1714 salt lake1763 bayou1766 lagoon1769 cut-off1773 prairie1820 maar1826 boating lake1834 serpentine1837 soda lake1839 bitter lake1843 stream-lake1867 shott1878 crater-lake1879 playa1885 oxbow lake1887 kettle-hole lake1902 mortlake1902 oxbow1902 seepage lake1934 paternoster lake1942 soda pan1976 1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents I. 246 The playas..seemed to have an extent of twenty-five or thirty miles. 1856 in Publ. S. Calif. Hist. Soc. (1928) XIV. 124 We..stopped 1½ hours at the wagon & took breakfast & then pushed on to the playa & went ahead to hunt for water. 1885 I. C. Russell in Monogr. U.S. Geol. Surv. 11 10 Other lakes, which indicate still more pointedly the contrast between an arid and a humid climate, we may call playa lakes. These are sheets of shallow water, covering many square miles in winter season, but evaporating to dryness during the summer, their beds becoming hard, smooth mud-plains or playas. 1939 P. G. Worcester Textbk. Geomorphol. ix. 246 Ancient playas which have not been covered with water for many years are likely to have quite irregular surfaces. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 6 The lakes of southern Oregon and northern California already mentioned are shallow playas. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) iv. 242 He crossed a dry gypsum playa where the salt crust stove under the horse's hooves like trodden isinglass. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as playa deposit, playa flat, playa mud, playa plain, etc. ΚΠ 1884 Science 18 July 64/2 Then it dried away gradually and probably completely, and its residual salt was buried beneath fine clay, or ‘playa deposits’. 1939 P. G. Worcester Textbk. Geomorphol. ix. 247 Two types of sloping plains usually connect the borders of desert basins with the flat central playa plains. These are bajadas and pediments. 1973 Nature 20 July 145/1 The Triassic sabkhas were not all coastal sabkhas, or tidal flats, some may have been continental sabkhas, or playa flats. 1999 Rock & Gem Dec. 69/2 Fierce winds..push the rocks across slippery playa muds when they are saturated by rare episodes of Death Valley precipitation. C2. playa lake n. a temporary lake formed in a playa (sense 2) after rain. ΚΠ 1883 I. C. Russell in Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 381 The lakes that cover playas at certain times..may with convenience be designated as playa-lakes, as they have many features peculiar to themselves. 1975 A. L. McAlester & E. A. Hay Physical Geol. x. 330 In arid regions..intermittent playa lakes are formed by infrequent downpours and quickly dry up, leaving an accumulation of evaporites. 2005 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 23 Jan. 6 c The club has access to about 30,000 acres of hunting land, including playa lakes and other small waterholes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600
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