单词 | rumelian |
释义 | Rumelianadj.n. Now historical. A. adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to Rumelia, a region in the Balkan peninsula formerly ruled by the Ottoman Empire. Cf. Rumeliot adj.In former Ottoman use, Rumelia was applied to roughly the whole region under Turkish rule south of the Balkan Mountains, east of the Adriatic, and north of the Peloponnese; in later more general use, it referred to approximately the regions of ancient Macedonia and Thrace, or to Thrace alone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > countries of Eastern Europe > [adjective] > Rumelia Rumeliot1825 Rumelian1880 1756 N. Tindal tr. D. Cantemir Hist. Growth & Decay Othman Empire (new ed.) i. 246 The Persians being defeated, he..orders..Jambolad zade..whom he had made General of the Rumelian horse, to infest Poland. 1822 Pamphleteer 21 176 Rumelian hordes fell upon defenceless citizens. 1880 E. W. Hamilton Diary 29 Aug. (1972) I. 41 Colonel Wilson who is reporting on the state of the Bulgarian and Eastern Roumelian provinces finds..a better state of affairs than he expected. 1902 D. G. Hogarth Nearer East 155 Most thinly peopled are the mountainous districts between the Vardar and the Rumelian plains. 1978 G. A. Craig Germany 1866–1945 iv. iv. 125 The Serbs..were ill advised enough to seek compensation for the Rumelian annexation by military means. 2000 M. Greene Shared World iii. 105 In eighteenth century Istanbul, Cairo and many Rumelian cities, a large number of artisans were members of..paramilitary corps. B. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Rumelia (see sense A.); = Rumeliot n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Rumelia > [noun] Rumelian1767 Rumeliot1838 1767 London Evening Post 17 Oct. 2/2 The present King of the grand Maldives..had promoted Behemoth, the Rumelian, to be his Prime Vizier. 1824 E. Blaquiere Greek Revol. vi. 100 Ussuf, Pacha of Negropont,..crossed over from Lepanto with a body of Roumelians. 1879 Glasgow Herald 2 Apr. 6/3 The south Roumelians need not be afraid of their future. 1935 H. Edib Clown & his Daughter xxi. 114 Why should they insult him and spit at him because he was a Rumelian? 1963 B. Lewis Istanbul ii. 21 Prince Musa..rallied the support of the Rumelians. 2006 C. Iordachi in T. Baycroft & M. Hewitson What is Nation? vii. 145 Rumelians were nominally Ottoman citizens. 2. A Rumelian language or dialect. rare.Probably a European dialect of Turkish. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > Greek dialects common dialect1604 Aeolic1606 Ionic1606 Ionic dialect1629 Athenian1638 Theban1820 Laconian1830 Doric1837 Rumelian1859 Pamphylian1880 Tsakonian1902 Pontic1910 Thessalian1910 koine1913 Messenian1928 Macedonian1933 Mycenaean1955 1859 J. F. Maguire Rome (ed. 2) xxviii. 323 The different languages in which poetical compositions were recited at the Polyglot Academy, for Epiphany, 1858 [were]..Danish, Roumelian, Albanian, Polish, [etc.]. 1903 H. James Ambassadors xii. 159 You might confess to her with confidence in Roumelian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1756 |
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