“Vedda”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Vedda

释义

ˈVedda
Also 7 Vaddah, 9 Veddah, 9– Wedda.
[Sinhalese veddā archer, hunter.]
A member of an aboriginal people inhabiting the forest districts of Sri Lanka.
1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 61 In this Land are many of these wild men, they call them Vaddahs.1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 289 The Veddahs or wild hunters of Ceylon.1875Jevons Money iv. 28 Somewhat similar pieces circulated in Abyssinia, the Soulou Archipelago.., and among the Veddahs.1876B. F. Hartshorne in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 406 The Weddas, or, as they are more commonly but inaccurately called, the Veddas of Ceylon.1881Tylor Anthropology vi. (1904) 164 In the forests of Ceylon are found..the Veddas or ‘hunters’, shy wild men who build bough huts, and live on game and wild honey.1900Contemp. Rev. Mar. 453 Practices, which are worthy of the Weddas or the Maories.

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