| 单词 | Minæan |
| 释义 | Minæan, n. and a.|mɪˈniːən|
Also Minean.
[f. L. Minæus, f. Arab. Ma‘īn, + -an.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of an ancient kingdom of southern Arabia.
b. The Semitic language of the Minæans.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Minæans, their kingdom, or their language. So Miˈnaic n. and a.
1601Holland tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. xii. xiv. 366 There is another tract by it selfe confronting this countrye [sc. Arabia], wherein the Minæans doe inhabite. 1833A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. iv. 148 The Minæans were rich in palm-groves, flocks, and fertile fields. 1844C. Forster Hist. Geogr. Arabia I. ii. 133 We find Carman reg., the Minæan metropolis..peopled by Pliny with the Charmæi. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 654/1 The other [dialect], which expresses the causative by sa.., is the Minaic. To this latter branch belong the numerous South Arabic inscriptions recently found in the north of the Ḥijáz, near Ḥejr where the Minæans must have had a commercial settlement. Ibid., The singular manner in which districts containing Sabæan inscriptions and those containing Minaic alternate with one another. 1902in Gottheil & Jastrow Semitic Study Ser. I. (Advt.), Selected Sabaean and Minaean inscriptions. 1934L. H. Gray Introd. Semitic Compar. Ling. i. 6 South Arabic is represented only by inscriptions (Minaean,..Qaṯabānian,..). 1936F. Stark Southern Gates Arabia 5 The Arabian empires rose and fell—Minean, Sabæan, Katabanian. 1951W. F. Albright in H. H. Rowley Old Testament & Mod. Study ii. 32 The difference between Sabaean and Minaean, the former of which has an h-causative whereas the latter has the s-causative. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia. I. 1044/1 Four main states are known to have established themselves in South Arabia—Ma‘īn (of the Minaeans), Saba' (of the Sabaeans), Qatabān (Qitbān) and Ḥaḍramawt. Ibid. XIX. 1084/1 Yemen..was successively the centre of the Minaean (13th to 7th centuries bc), Sabaean.., and Himyaritic..civilizations. |
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