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单词 simbil
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simbiln.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Simbil.
Etymology: < German Simbil ( A. E. Brehm Reiseskizzen IV. (1855) 130 (note) , with reference to observations of early 1848), of uncertain origin; it was reported to be < a language of what is now South Sudan, but no likely etymon has been traced.The work cited in quot. 1873 draws heavily on a later publication by Brehm. Brehm also cites a form Simbere (in an unspecified language in a German context) in a diary entry dated 12 Jun. 1850 (published in Journ. für Ornith. 4 (1856) 412); compare the following early translation of that passage into English:1868 J. H. Gurney tr. A. E. Brehm in Ibis 4 258 We disturbed their holy birds, ‘Simbere,’ and invoked the curse and punishment of heaven.
Obsolete.
Abdim's stork, Ciconia abdimii.
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1873 T. R. Jones Cassell's Bk. Birds IV. 70 The Simbil (Sphenorhynchus Abdimii) is an inhabitant of Southern Africa, and represents a division of..birds having the face bare.
1895 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. IV. viii. 309 The eggs are rather smaller than those of the white stork... The simbil, as this bird is called in the Sudan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019).
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