tamasha

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A visual art form from Maharashtra, India, involving singing and dancing. countable,uncountable
    — c.1885, A.L.O.E. The Wondrous Sickle We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha!
  2. Any traditional indigenous public ceremony. countable,historical,uncountable
    — I went to a Tamasha, as the Indian troops call these affairs, one fine Sunday afternoon in May. A broad plateau in the middle of the fields had been selected for the sports, and when I arrived an enormous crowd, as picturesque as any I have ever seen, was thronging round the ropes.

词形变化

tamashas plural tomasha alternative tumasha alternative

词源

Borrowed from Marathi तमाशा (tamāśā), from Classical Persian تماشا (tamāšā), ultimately from Arabic مَشَى (mašā, “to walk”).
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