单词 | tau sug |
释义 | Tau Sugn.adj. One of the Islamic groups inhabiting the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippine Islands, whose ancestors can be traced back to the Butuan area of north-east Mindanao; the Austronesian language spoken by this people. Also attributive or as adj. Cf. Sulu n.1 ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > person > Philippine Tau Sug1923 the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > meso-Philippine languages > Tau-Sug Sulu1816 Tau Sug1964 1923 S. Y. Orosa Sulu Archipelago & its People v. 67 The people of the Sulu Province number over 170,000, roughly grouped as Sulus and Samals. The dominating and most advanced people are the Sulus or Tao-Sug, ‘people of the current’. 1964 P. G. Gowing Mosque & Moro i. 1 Ninety-two percent of all Muslim Filipinos belong to the Tau Sug, Maranao,..and Samal groups. 1964 P. G. Gowing Mosque & Moro i. 2 A vigorous and proud people, the Tau Sug are the backbone of the historic Sultanate of Sulu. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating ix. 207 In the expression ‘sat and begged’ as rendered into Tau Sug, a language of the Philippines, one must specify one of these actions as primary and the other as secondary. 1973 J. A. Bruno (title) The social world of the Tausug. 1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 41 Taw Sug = Tausug = Sulu = Joloano Sulu. Palawan, Philippines, northeast coast of Borneo. Closely related to Maranao. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1923 |
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