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单词 sunda
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Sundaadj.n.

Brit. /ˈsʌndə/, /ˈsʊndə/, U.S. /ˈsəndə/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Sunda.
Etymology: < Sunda (Indonesian Sunda, Malay Sunda, Sundanese Sunda), the name of a region in western Java, also (originally in European use) the name of a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago including Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Bali, and Timor.The place name is attested in English contexts from the 16th cent., originally as the name of a kingdom in western Java, and from the late 17th cent. (by extension) also of a group of surrounding islands. Compare Dutch Soenda , name of the kingdom (16th cent. as Sunda ), name of the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra (17th cent. or earlier), and name of the group of islands (18th cent. or earlier). Scientific use. In scientific use (see sense A. 1) often with reference to the biogeographical region north-west of the Wallace line (see Wallace line n. at Wallace n. b), comprising the western part of the Sunda archipelago as well as the Philippines and the Malay Peninsula.
A. adj.
1. attributive. Designating animals native to or associated with the Sunda Islands, as Sunda grosbeak, Sunda ox, etc.
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1801 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds Suppl. II. 196 Sunda Grosbeak, Loxia Javensis.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 322/1 Here [i.e. in the Malay Peninsula] is..the Sunda ox of Java.
1965 Proc. Royal Soc. 1964–5 B. 161 81 The Sunda Whistling Thrush (Myophonius g. borneensis)..was never recorded in Borneo except in a fully montane habitat until we found it in the forties common and nesting at sea-level.
1997 Wildfowl 47 178/2 Examination of the plumage of captive Sunda Teal has shown wing patterns almost identical to the Grey Teal.
2016 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 14 Feb. The Sunda pangolin is critically endangered globally as it is poached for its meat and scales.
2. Of, relating to, or designating the Sundanese people of western Java, or their language.
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1816 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Feb. 124/2 Chi, in the Sunda language, signifying ‘water’.
1830 Oriental Christian Spectator 1 220 The Sunda people..extend from Cheribon to Anjeer.
1893 China Rev. 20 138/2 ‘Revered.’ A title first given to the Arab teachers, and now applied to the Sultan of Solo. (Rigg's Sunda Dictionary.)
1983 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 23 Jan. Brill printed materials in the Javanese, Madurese, Batak and Sunda alphabets of the various islands.
1999 S. Suzuki in M. Honari & T. Boleyn Health Ecol. 241 Making a pond next to their homes is a tradition of the Sunda people.
2015 S. Rustiadi & I. R. Mirzanti in J. Caust Arts & Cultural Leadership in Asia v. 65 Promoting Sunda culture to local people was like preaching to the converted.
B. n.
The language of the Sundanese people; = Sundanese n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > other Austronesian
Moluccas1619
Formosan1704
Sunda1816
Melanesian1849
Sundanese1849
Lifu1852
Bajau1869
Ambonese1875
Acehnese1882
Kiriwinian1916
Tolai1962
Moluccan1977
1816 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Apr. 354/2 Very extensive vocabularies, not only of both divisions of the Javanese, including the Kawi, but of the Sunda,..have been collected.
1826 Missionary Reg. Mar. 155/2 Sunda is a language into which the Scriptures have not yet been translated.
1862 J. Rigg Dict. Sunda Lang. Pref. p. vii A great many words in Sunda begin with this ng.
2011 S. J. Kays Cultivated Veg. of World 766 Sunda is spoken by 27,000,000 people in the western third of Java. Classification Austronesian. Malayo-Polynesian, Sundanese. Dialects: Banten, Bogor (Krawang), Pringan, and Cirebon.
2012 J. Minahan Ethnic Groups of S. Asia & Pacific 29 The Bantenese number around 9 million and speak the Banten dialect of Sunda or Sundanese.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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