Cushite

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词形变化

Cushites 复数 Cushites

别名

Kushite

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.

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adj.
  1. 1.

    Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush.

name
  1. 1.

    The Cushitic subfamily of languages.

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词源

From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).

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