| 单词 |
Yezidi |
| 释义 |
Yezidi, -dee|ˈjɛzɪdiː|
Also Yeze(e)dee, Izedi, Zezidee.
[Of disputed origin.]
One of a religious sect found in Kurdistan, Armenia, and the Caucasus, which, while believing in a Supreme God, regards the Devil with reverential fear.
1818Kinneir Journ. Asia Minor 414 The Zezidees live in enmity with the Christians. 1819T. Hope Anastasius (1820) III. 114 The strangers were Yezidees. 1842J. B. Fraser Mesop. & Assyria xiv. 328 The Yezidee religion appears to be a compound of many others strangely jumbled together. 1848Layard (title) Nineveh and its Remains: with an Account of..the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers. 1852Badger Nestor. I. x. 112, I think it cannot be doubted that the term ‘Yezeedee’ is derived from Yezd, one of the titles applied by the ancient Persians to the Supreme Being. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. II. xvii. 299 The Izedis or Yezidis, the so-called Devil-worshippers. |
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