Indian
英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]源自盎格魯-諾曼語 indien, 中古法語 indien,等同於Ind + -ian。用於美洲原住民是早期探險家將其與印度人混淆[1]。
發音
[编辑]形容詞
[编辑]Indian (比較級 more Indian,最高級 most Indian)
- 印度的 (自14世紀)
- 東印度的
- (棄用) 東方的
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 10:
- The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 10:
- 印第安人的,美洲原住民的 (自16世紀)
- 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia..., p. 346:
- The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.
- 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia..., p. 346:
- (加拿大、美國,食物) 以玉米為原料製作的 (自17世紀)
- Indian bread; Indian meal
近義詞
[编辑]- Indish 〈古〉
派生詞
[编辑]- Amerindian (American Indian)
- East Indian
- Hindian (Asian Indian)
- Indian almond
- Indian apple
- Indian burn
- Indian carp
- Indian cobra
- Indian coral tree
- Indian corn
- Indian darter
- Indian elephant
- Indian fig
- Indian file
- Indian fire
- Indian giving
- Indian harp
- Indian hawthorn
- Indian hemp
- Indian ink
- Indian lemonade
- Indian mahogany
- Indian mulberry
- Indian mustard
- Indian myna
- Indianness
- Indian Ocean
- Indian ox
- Indian paintbrush
- Indian pangolin
- Indian peacock
- Indian pipe
- Indian plum
- Indian poker
- Indian potato
- Indian pudding
- Indian red
- Indian relish
- Indian rhinoceros
- Indian rhubarb
- Indian River
- Indian Runner
- Indian sandalwood
- Indian sign
- Indian strawberry
- Indian style
- Indian summer
- Indian sunburn
- Indian wheat
- Indian wrestling
- Indian yellow
- too many chiefs and not enough Indians
- West Indian
相關詞彙
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]Indian (複數 Indians)
- 印度人 (自13世紀)
- 印第安人,美洲原住民(一般不包括阿拉斯加原住民) (自16世紀)
- 1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:
- We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.
- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
- With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
- (現罕用,歷史) 大洋洲原住民 (自18世紀)
- (不可數) 印度菜
- (英國,口語) 印度餐館的菜品 (自20世紀)
- We're going out tonight for an Indian.
- 今晚我們去印度餐館吃飯。
- (英國,口語) 印度餐館
- We're going down the Indian for a curry - wanna join us?
- 我們要去印度餐館吃咖喱——你也一起來嗎?
近義詞
[编辑]- (印度人): Asian Indian
- (印第安人): American Indian, Amerindian, Amerind, Native American, Red Indian, First Nations person
專有名詞
[编辑]Indian
- (非標準) 美洲原住民的語言
- (非標準,罕用) 印度的語言(尤其指印地語)
- 1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:
- [They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]
- 1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:
參考資料
[编辑]- ↑ “Indian”, Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present
因特語
[编辑]發音
[编辑]形容詞
[编辑]Indian