| 单词 | shifta war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasShifta War A bandit, outlaw, or guerrilla. Also as a modifier, esp. in Shifta War (1963–7), a war fought by ethnic Somali in Kenya's Northern Frontier District in an attempt to secede from Kenya and rejoin Somalia. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > guerrilla > [noun] > specific jay-hawker1860 bushwhacker1862 comitadji1903 chetnik1909 partisan1917 shifta1920 fellagha1922 maquisard1944 mujahidin1947 Tupamaro1969 terr1976 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun] > in other countries dacoit1788 gang-robber1812 bush-ranger1817 klepht1820 flayer1832 ranger1840 dacoity1849 sticker-up1853 boh1888 demon1909 shifta1920 1920 Geogr. Jrnl. 56 353 The banks of the [Omo] river were covered with dense thorn forest, having an unsavoury reputation for harbouring bands of ‘shiftas’, or brigands. 1967 Washington Post 29 Oct. a25/2 A few months ago the thought of negotiating an end to the Shifta war seemed unlikely. 1989 J. Gebre-Medhin Peasants & Nationalism Eritrea 157 The people's militia was formed to fight these pro-Ethiopian shifta. 2019 Sunday Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 5 May His Toyota Land Cruisers dodged shifta bandits to deliver miraa to towns like Mandera and, across the border, in Bura Hawa inside Somalia. < as lemmas |
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