Navajo

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈnæ.və.həʊ/    美 /ˈnæ.və.hoʊ/|/ˈnɑ.və.hoʊ/|/ˈnæ.voʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
    — As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII.
专有名词
  1. An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
    — Endangered language communities would be thrilled with and proud of that kind of exposure for their language, like when Star Wars was dubbed into Navajo and Ojibwe.
  2. An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.
    — One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died.
  3. A surname.

词形变化

Navajo plural Navajos plural Navajoes plural Navaho alternative Navaho alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Navajo Nation

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahúuˀu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahúuˀu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).
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