单词 | sudanese |
释义 | Sudanesen.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of Sudan.Originally with reference to a vast region of North Africa, extending across the width of the continent from the southern edge of the Sahara to the tropical equatorial zone in the south; now chiefly designating the Republic of the Sudan, a country in north-eastern Africa south of Egypt, with a coastline on the Red Sea. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [noun] Nigritian1738 Sudan1799 Sudanese1826 Dinka1861 Sudani1874 fuzzy1890 fuzzy-wuzzy1892 Nilote1893 Nilotic1906 1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 502 Ruined towns..composed of scattered groups of houses..formerly inhabited by those whom the Felatahs or Soudanese slaughtered or sold in slavery. 1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 11 A wounded Sudanese. 1965 K. D. D. Henderson Sudan Republic vii. 89 Umma, the Community Party with the slogan of ‘the Sudan for the Sudanese’. 2019 Sudan Tribune (Nexis) 1 July The Sudanese are..determined to have..a new Sudan that reflects the aspirations of the people. B. adj. Of, belonging to, or relating to Sudan or its inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Africa > [adjective] > Central African lands Nigritian1757 Sudanic1802 Sudanese1853 Mozambican1875 Nigerian1876 Zanzibari1884 Rhodesian1892 Chadian1960 Katangese1962 Tanzanian1964 Lagosian1967 Namibian1968 Malawian1970 Zairean1973 Zairois1973 Zairese1974 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [adjective] Nilotic1653 Nigritian1757 Sudanian1837 Sudanese1853 Dinka1861 1853 Lit. Gaz. 19 Mar. 276/1 Mr. Richardson had occupied himself a great deal in making vocabularies of the Bornouese and Soudanese languages. 1906 Times 16 Apr. 4/6 It often happened that a black soldier would turn out with a red leather Sudanese bandolier..round his waist. 1979 Guardian 25 May 9/6 The tariqas or brotherhoods..provide the chief social institutions of the Sudanese countryside. 2020 Sudan News Agency (Nexis) 10 Jan. Among the priorities of the transitional government is..fair and deserving representation of Sudanese women. Compounds Sudanese-Guinean n. a proposed family of north-eastern and north-western African languages including Hausa, Yoruba, Masai, and other languages now considered members of the Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, or Afro-Asiatic language families. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [noun] > Sudanic > Sudano-Guinean Sudanese-Guinean1944 1944 M. Pei Geogr. of Lang. 33 Sudanese-Guinean. 1967 M. Schlauch Language ii. 39 In a wide belt stretching across Northern Africa, bounded on the South by a line extending Eastwards from the shores of the Gulf of Guinea and then dipping still farther to the South, we find a chain of languages grouped together and known as Sudanese-Guinean. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.adj.1826 |
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