assegai英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.

— But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]
The tree species Curtisia dentata, the wood of which is traditionally used to make assegais.

— In the clearing, built around the base of an assegai tree, stood a hut, plastered in cow dung.

动词 v.

To spear with an assegai.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1

From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).

词源 2

From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).