assegai

n. (=assagai)南非土人所用的长矛, (可用以制长矛)南非山茱萸科乔木 v. (=assagai)用标枪刺穿

发音

UK /ˈæsəɡaɪ/

词形变化

assegais 复数 assegais assegaied assegaiing assegais 三单 assegaiing 现在分词 assegaied 过去式 assegaied 过去分词

别名

assagai assagaie assagay assegaai assegay azagaia hassagay hassaguay zagaie zagaye

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.

  2. 2.

    The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.

v.
  1. 1.

    To spear with an assegai.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

assagai

上位词 3

lance shaft spear

词源

From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).

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