单词 | qatari |
释义 | Qatarin.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of Qatar, a peninsular region on the west coast of the Persian Gulf.Qatar was a British protectorate from 1916 until 1971, when it became a sovereign independent state. Oil is the chief source of revenue. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Iran, Iraq, or the Gulf > [noun] MedeeOE Persianc1375 Persec1384 Medianc1400 Lydian1545 Mesopotamian1553 Meccana1618 Ma'dan1792 Omanic1819 Iraqi1824 Yemenite1864 Sumerian1873 Akkadian1908 Yemeni1916 Marsh Arab1917 Medinese1922 Iraqian1923 Kuwaiti1928 Tehrani1939 Qatari1954 1954 S. H. Longrigg Oil in Middle East xiii. 230 In a labour force of some 3,000 all efforts were and are made by the Company to give pride of place to Qataris. 1970 Guardian 10 Apr. 11/7 Qatar is regarded..as a protégé of Saudi Arabia, a point some Qataris indignantly deny. 1985 R. H. Dekmejian Islam in Revol. ii. x. 154 In recent years..anti-establishment fundamentalist trends have appeared among both the tribal and educated Qataris. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 13 Apr. 23/3 Qataris are among the richest people in the world, thanks to their possession of the planet's largest single natural gas reserve. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or relating to Qatar, its people, or its language. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Middle East > other Middle Eastern lands Syrian1537 Assyrian1591 Transjordanian1684 Iraqi1777 Syriatic1786 Assyriac1801 Oman1819 Aramaean1834 Omani1865 Transjordanian1922 Lebanese1926 Jordanian1950 Qatari1954 Emirati1989 1954 S. H. Longrigg Oil in Middle East xiii. 230 Sympathetic administration and discipline, and regular paid holidays, were features wholly new to Qatari conceptions of employment. 1960 Geogr. Jrnl. 126 447 The transcription used in this article is a conventional one, with a few exceptions which show the Qatari pronunciation of certain consonants, vowels and diphthongs. 1978 Financial Times 22 Feb. 20/2 A further licence has been granted to a group of Qatari nationals to start a thirteenth bank. 1998 Chicago Tribune 11 Jan. v. 10/2 The white ‘dish-dasha’ robes that are the national dress of Qatari men. 2001 Times 4 Apr. i. 3/1 While the couple's..meetings with the Qatari Education Minister raised no eyebrows, their previous state visits are now attracting renewed..attention. Compounds Qatari-born adj. ΚΠ 1976 Times 3 Sept. (Qatar Suppl.) p. i/1 Qatari-born civil servants occupy many of the top-level posts. 2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Oct. (Style section) c1 Muftah Suwaidan, the Qatari-born director of al-Jazeera's London office, the station's foreign news hub. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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