kanaka

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of Hawaiian descent.
    — It was considered one of the nation’s strictest bans because of the reference to Kanakas – native Hawaiians – and because Nevada was the only other state to add Chinese.
  2. A South Pacific Islander, especially a labourer in Australia or Canada. historical
    — There remains one case to be considered, that of the deportation of the Kanakas who were introduced into Queensland for the purpose of work on the sugar plantations.[…]It was, however, felt in the south that a white Australia was essential, and the Commonwealth passed in 1901 an Act (No. 16) which arranged for the deportation of all Kanakas within a few years.

词形变化

kanakas plural kanaka plural Kanaka alternative

词汇关系

相关词
Canaque Canuck Kanak Kanake

词源

1840. From Hawaiian kanaka (“person”), ultimately from Proto-Polynesian *taŋata.
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