chanate

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. a kind of bird
    — The farmer will hardly have sowed his wheat and maize fields when whole flocks of hungry chanates descend upon the land, scratch out the seeds, and eat them.
  2. a kind of tree (Colophospermum mopane) uncountable
    — The dominant tree, often to the exclusion of many others, is Colophospermum mopane, commonly known as mopane or chanate.
  3. Obsolete spelling of khanate. alt-of,obsolete
    — Gengis-Chan and Batuj spread terror over Europe. At a subsequent period this people separated into several Chanates.
  4. a kind of bird; great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
  5. a kind of bird; red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
    — “A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. [...] “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,”
  6. black person derogatory,slang
    — Pelaquillo's older brother was there. We called him Chanate, the name of a little black bird, because he was so dark.
  7. coffee slang
    — I’m sippin’ on some chanate [coffee] right now.

词形变化

chanates plural chanates plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Spanish chanate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tzanatl (“great-tailed grackle”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Portuguese chanate, from an indigenous language of Mozambique.
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