单词 | toda |
释义 | Todaadj.n. A. adj. Of or relating to the Todas (sense B. 1) or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Indian > [adjective] > other peoples of India Gentoo1672 Maratha1742 Mewati1832 Toda1834 Naga1835 Sindhi1836 Yusufzai1838 Ahom1848 Dogra1849 Lushai1862 Meo1880 Rai1899 Moplah1910 1834 H. Jervis Narr. Journey to Falls of Cavery facing p. 33 (caption) A Toda village. 1856 F. Metz Tribes inhabiting Neilgherry Hills 18 Great sanctity attaches to the person of the Pàlaul in the eyes of his Toda brethren. 1953 R. L. Beals & H. Hoijer Introd. Anthropol. xiv. 429 The ideal pattern of marriage in Toda culture is fraternal polyandry. 1976 Language 52 259 This latest monograph..is most easily understood when studied in conjunction with his massive earlier tome on Toda songs. 2004 J. Dhamija Asian Embroidery 314 She has helped greatly in reviving the Toda Embroideries and finds markets for these goods. B. n. 1. A member of a pastoral people inhabiting the Nilgiris district of southern India. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [noun] > native or inhabitant of India > parts of Malabar1582 Gujaratic1607 Bengalan1613 Goan1652 Hindustan1662 Macassar1665 Gangetic1677 Malabarian1709 Mysorean1761 Bengalese1778 Assamese1794 Hindustani1813 Marwari1815 Sindhi1815 mofussilite1828 Mizo1832 Goanese1835 Punjabi1843 Bengali1848 Sindian1849 Madrasi1851 Toda1851 Hindia1853 Lushai1862 Kashmirian1876 Kashmir1882 Kashmiri1882 Konkani1885 ditcher1886 Ladakhi1893 Bihari1897 Sikkimese1938 Rajasthani1947 Maharashtrian1953 1851 Parochial Missionary Mag. 2 116 These Todas live in families occupying what is termed a mund or small village. 1856 F. Metz Tribes inhabiting Neilgherry Hills 91 I was recently at one of these festivals, and was happily enabled to rescue a poor Toda from being subjected to a fiery ordeal. 1873 W. E. Marshall Trav. amongst Todas xxiv. 208 Everything with the Toda is taken au sérieux. 1926 Jrnl. Philos. 23 548 Why the religion of the Todas should center about the dairy,..is a problem for the culture historian. 1980 H. Trevelyan Public & Private 7 The bee-hive huts of the Todas, the earliest known inhabitants of the [Nilgiri] hills who still lived there. 2014 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 21 June (Traveller section) 10 The Toda have teams of gods..which they glorify through poetry and song, composing complex verses in honour of mountains, rivers and buffaloes. 2. The Dravidian language of this people, closely related to Tamil. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Elamo-Dravidian > [noun] > Dravidian > Tamil-Kodagu Malayalam1814 Toda1939 1855 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 9 164 1, 2 and 3 appear to be distinct roots. 1, on, (no, o, in the Toda 11, nu in most of the dialects in 100, but on in Toda) is definitive in Dravirian. 1895 India's Women Oct. 456/2 The idea is to see whether the Gospel in Toda is understandable of the people. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 386 [Dravidian] falls into four great divisions, the first of which is Tamil-Kurukh, comprising Tamil..; Malayāḷam..; Ṭulu..; Koḍagu..; Kanarese, including Toda, Kōta, and Baḍaga..; and Kurukh. 1966 Anthropol. Ling. 8 No. 4. 37 Toda is spoken by about 950 people in the Nilgiri hills. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 301/1 Toda and Kōta..are Dravidian languages of small tribal groups. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1834 |
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