单词 | bechuana |
释义 | Bechuanan.α. 1800s Beuchuana, 1800s Bochuana, 1800s Boetshoeana, 1800s Booshooana, 1800s Bootchuanna, 1800s Bootshooana, 1800s Bootshuana, 1800s Boschuana, 1800s Boshuana, 1800s Boshuanah, 1800s Botchuana, 1800s Botschuana, 1800s Buchuana, 1800s Bucuana. β. 1800s Bechanna, 1800s Bechouana, 1800s Beetchuanah, 1800s Beetjuana, 1800s Beetshuana, 1800s Betcuana, 1800s Betjouana, 1800s Betjuana, 1800s Bichuana, 1800s Bishuana, 1800s Bituana, 1800s– Bachuana, 1800s– Bechuan (now rare), 1800s– Bechuana, 1800s– Bechwana, 1900s be-Chuana, 1900s– Becwana. A member of a black African people inhabiting the country between the Orange and Zambezi rivers in southern Africa, and speaking a Bantu language, Tswana (formerly called Sechuana). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > other peoples of Southern Africa > person Kaffir1704 Bechuana1804 Red Kaffir1821 Motswana1830 Vaalpens1871 Batswana1894 Tswana1938 1804 J. Barrow Acc. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–98 II. ii. 114 The city Leetakoo, the capital of a tribe of Kaffers called Booshooanas, situate at the distance of sixteen days' journey beyond the Orange River, in the direction of north-east from the Cape. 1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 581 Bichuánia; or the country of the Bichuana (Bitjuána) nations. 1826 R. Moffatt (title) A Bechuana Catechism. 1850 J. W. Appleyard Kafir Lang. 31 The terms Bechuana (a variation of Bachuana) and Sechuana, are different forms of the same verbal root, the former referring to people, and the latter to language... By the Hottentot tribes, the Bechuanas are called Briqua, the goat-people. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 478/1 The Bechwana are divided into numerous tribes. 1936 Discovery June 172/1 The Southern Bantu comprise the Shona peoples, the Xulu-Xosa.., the Suto-Chawana (Bechwana, Basuto, etc.), and the Herero-Ovambo. 1964 E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds xiii. 125 A group of Bechuana girls pitchforked by air..into a big London hospital. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1804 |
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