单词 | toradja |
释义 | Toradjan. 1. An Austronesian people living in central Sulawesi (formerly Celebes); a member of this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Malaysian or Indonesian > [noun] > Malaysian or Indonesian peoples Bugis1672 Rejang1783 Buginese1800 Orang Laut1834 Jakun1839 Sakai1839 Sundanese1849 Timorese1869 Senoi1891 proto-Malay1898 Toradja1911 Temiar1933 Makasarese1948 1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. iii. 109 The Toradjas of Central Celebes believe that things of the same sort attract each other by means of their indwelling spirits. 1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali ii. 16 The ancient inhabitants of the Malay Archipelago were ‘Indonesians’, also called Malayo-Polynesians,..and so forth. Of these, pure branches are to be found today in the Dyak of Borneo, the Batak of Sumatra, the Toradja of Celebes. 1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 89/2 The Toraja are a collection of tribes, living in central, southeast and east Celebes. 1979 Radio Times 5 May 61/1 It's in the mountains of central Sulawesi that you find the land of the Torajas. 2. The language of the Toradja. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > Sulawesi Toradja1964 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating ix. 208 In east Toradja, spoken in Indonesia, ‘they mentioned his-he-ness’ is a way of rendering ‘they spoke about him’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1911 |
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