| 单词 |
yanggona |
| 释义 |
‖ yanggona|jæŋˈgəʊnə|
Also (in Fiji) yaqona (with the same pronunc.). (Other spellings recorded below are ‘South Sea solecisms’ (G. B. Milner).)
[Fijian.]
The Fijian name for kava.
1858T. Williams Fiji I. ii. 24 The leading men drink yaqona with the king elect. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 156/2 The use of the kava root, here called yanggona.., was introduced, it is said, from Tonga. 1913R. Brooke Let. 15 Dec. (1968) 545 Yagona (pron. Yangona) is the drink: same as Samoan Kava. It is made by pounding up a root, and is non-intoxicant, though slightly narcotic. 1922A. B. Brewster Hill Tribes of Fiji xviii. 179 Christening now takes the place of the old custom of sprinkling the children with water from the yangona bowls. 1953G. K. Roth Fijian Way of Life iii. 114 The vessel from which yanggona is regularly drunk nowadays is a cup made from the distal half of a coconut shell cut laterally. 1977Times 17 Feb. 16/5 The Queen was..presented with..the potent locally-brewed drink called Yaqona. 1983Guardian Weekly 25 Sept. 12/4 The great council of chiefs—the supreme body for Fijian affairs—met over a bowl of yakona. |
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