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单词 tutsi
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Tutsin.adj.

Brit. /ˈtʊtsi/, /ˈtuːtsi/, U.S. /ˈtutsi/, /ˈtʊtsi/
Inflections: Plural unchanged, Tutsis.
Origin: A borrowing from Rwanda. Etymon: Rwanda -tutsi.
Etymology: < Rwanda -tutsi (in Abatutsi , plural: see Watusi n.). Compare earlier Watusi n.The plural form Tutsis is an English development.
A. n.
A member of an ethnic group forming a minority of the population of Rwanda and Burundi. Cf. Watusi n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of other regions > [noun]
Numidian?a1425
Nubianc1450
Massylian1606
catadupes1607
Mauritanian1607
Marmarican1627
Niam-Niam1861
Watusi1863
Zande1873
Twa1878
Tutsi1929
Cyrenaican1942
Ubangi1953
Chadian1960
Saharan1970
Sahrawi1976
1929 Man 29 60/1 Tutsi, semi-Hamitic pastorals of the ruling caste.
1979 ‘D. Grant’ Olympic 5000 i. 27 Ochengwe was a Tutsi.
2015 S. Straus Making & Unmaking Nations iii. 65 In Rwanda and Burundi, the political landscape centers around two groups, Hutus and Tutsis.
B. adj.
Of, belonging to, or relating to the Tutsi.
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1952 Amer. Anthropologist 54 246 Within the space of 200 years, the Kivu country has changed..into a territory in which agriculture is carried on by Bantu Negroes and cattle-breeding by the Tutsi Hamites.
1995 Hongkong Standard 26 Aug. 11/4 Most of the refugees fled Rwanda's civil war last year when ethnic Hutus went on a rampage, butchering members of the minority Tutsi tribe.
2014 New Times (Kigali, Rwanda) (Nexis) 9 Nov. Research..indicates that 99 per cent of Rwandans want their children to see themselves as just Rwandans instead of Hutu, Tutsi, or Twa identities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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