| 单词 | Niam-Niam |
| 释义 | Niam-Niam|ˈniːəmˈniːəm|
[Dinka, lit. ‘great eaters’.]
= Zande.
1861J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan, & Central Africa xxvi. 469 Attached to the girdle, a strong leather sheath containing a knife, hilt downwards, is worn by every Neam Nam. Ibid. 473 The Neam Nam recognise no superior chief; but, like the Dôr, the tribe is divided into numerous chieftainships. 1873E. E. Frewer tr. Schweinfurth's Heart of Africa II. xiii. 3 The name Niam-niam is..so universally incorporated into the Arabic of the Soudan, that it seems unadvisable to substitute for it the word ‘Zandey’, the name by which the people are known among themselves. 1891A. W. Buckland Anthrop. Studies v. 59 In Africa, the typical home of the stalwart Negro..we find the Bushman and Hottentot in the South, and the Akkas and Niam-Niams in the centre, very small in stature and yellow in colour. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 230/1 The Niam-Niam, or Zandeh people, as they call themselves..are now found to stretch, with interruptions, from the White Nile above the Sobat confluence to the Shari affluent of Lake Chad. 1931J. G. Leyburn Handbk. Ethnography 176/2 Niam-Niam. Between the Welle, a tributary of the Ubangi, and the Nile. 1966R. & D. Morris Men & Apes viii. 238 The Niams-Niams, apparently, still adorn themselves with colobus monkey skins wound round the waist. |
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