| 单词 | berg damara |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBerg Damara Categories » Berg Damara n. see Damara n. Berg Damara In full Hill Damara, Berg Damara, or Mountain Damara. A member of a black African people who have adopted the Nama language, and who inhabit the mountainous regions of Namibia (formerly called South-West Africa). ΚΠ 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. vi. 397 The Damaras are obviously the same race of people as the Kaffers. 1878 A. K. Johnston Africa 452 These degraded Hill or Berg-Damaras name themselves Houquain or ‘real men’. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 731/2 Damaraland, a region of South-Western Africa..so called from the native race known..to the Cape colonists as Damara (Damra, or Dama). 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 731/2 85,000 are Herero proper, 30,000 Hill Damara, 3000 Bushmen. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 736/2 The Bantu..enslaving the Mountain Damaras. 1935 L. G. Green Great Afr. Myst. x. 122 The Berg Damaras..living in the almost inaccessible mountain strongholds of South West Africa. 1947 M. Oldevig Sunny Land 53 There were also the Dama people, living in the mountains further to the north, who were capable of forging iron weapons—the Hilldamaras or Klipkaffirs of the present day. 1947 M. Oldevig Sunny Land 53 The Damas. 1956 A. G. McRae Hill called Grazing xii. 126 This derelict appeared to be a Berg Damara, a tribe with hardly any tribal cohesion. < as lemmas |
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