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aardvark [aardvark 词源字典]: aardvark: see earth, farrow
[aardvark etymology, aardvark origin, 英语词源]
bazaar: bazaar: [16] Bazaar is a word of Persian origin; it comes from Persian bāzār ‘market’ (whose ultimate source was a prehistoric Old Persian *abēcharish), and reached English via Turkish and Italian (whence the early English form bazarro). Many fanciful spellings competed in 16th- and 17th-century English, including buzzard.
kraal: kraal: see corral
laager: laager: see lair
aardvark (n.): 1833, from Afrikaans Dutch aardvark, literally "earth-pig" (the animal burrows), from aard "earth" (see earth) + vark "pig," cognate with Old High German farah (source of German Ferkel "young pig, sucking pig," a diminutive form), Old English fearh (see farrow).
Aaron: masc. proper name, in the Old Testament the brother of Moses, from Hebrew Aharon, probably of Egyptian origin. The Arabic form is Harun. Aaron's beard as a type of herb is from 1540s.
Afrikaans (n.): Germanic language of South Africa, the Dutch language as spoken in South Africa, 1892, from Dutch Afrikaansch "Africanish" (see Afrikander). Also known as South African Dutch.
baa: imitative sound of a sheep, attested from 1580s, but probably older, as baa is recorded before this a name for a child's toy sheep. Compare Latin bee "sound made by a sheep" (Varro), balare "to bleat;" Greek blekhe "a bleating;" Catalan be "a sheep."
Baal: Biblical, from Hebrew Ba'al, literally "owner, master, lord," a title applied to any deity (including Jehovah), but later a name of a particular Semitic solar deity worshipped licentiously by the Phoenecians and Carthaginians; from ba'al "he took possession of," also "he married;" related to or derived from Akkadian Belu (source of Hebrew Bel), name of Marduk. Identical with the first element in Beelzebub and the second in Hannibal. Used figuratively in English for any "false god."
Baath: pan-Arab socialist party, founded by intellectuals in Syria in 1943, from Arabic ba't "resurrection, renaissance."
bazaar (n.): 1580s, from Italian bazarra, ultimately from Persian bazar (Pahlavi vacar) "a market."
Isaac: masc. proper name, name of a biblical patriarch, from Late Latin, from Greek Isaak, from Hebrew Yitzhaq, literally "he laughs," imperf. of tzahaq "he laughed."
Kaaba (n.): 1734, Caaba, cube-shaped building in the Great Mosque of Mecca, containing the Black Stone, from Arabic ka'bah "square house," from ka'b "cube."
kraal (n.): "village, pen, enclosure," 1731, South African, from colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral (see corral).
Maat: Egyptian goddess, literally (in Egyptian) "truth."
NAACP: abbreviation of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, first attested 1910. Organization founded Feb. 12, 1909, as National Negro Committee.
Naaman: masc. proper name, biblical name of Aramean general cured of leprosy by Elisha, from Hebrew Na'aman, literally "pleasantness," from stem of na'em "was pleasant or lovely." Compare Naomi.
Quaalude (n.): 1965, proprietary name (trademark by Wm. H. Rohrer Inc., Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) of methaqualone.
Saar: river in western Germany, from PIE root *ser- (2) "to run, flow" (see serum).
salaam: Muslim greeting, 1610s, from Arabic salam (also in Urdu, Persian), literally "peace" (compare Hebrew shalom); in full, (as)salam 'alaikum "peace be upon you," from base of salima "he was safe" (compare Islam, Muslim).
van de Graaff: in reference to an electrostatic charge generator, 1934, named for U.S. physicist R.J. van de Graaff (1901-1967).
aargh: "Used as an expression of anguish, horror, rage, or other strong emotion, often with humorous intent", Late 18th century: lengthened form of ah, expressing a prolonged cry.
braaivleis: "A picnic or barbecue where meat is grilled over an open fire", Afrikaans, 'grilled meat', from braai 'to grill' + vleis 'meat'.
haar: "A cold sea fog on the east coast of England or Scotland", Late 17th century: perhaps from Old Norse hárr 'hoar, hoary'.
deurmekaar: "In a state of muddle or confusion", Afrikaans, from Dutch dialect variants of door elkaar, literally 'through one another, interchangeable'.
dwaal: "A dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state", Afrikaans.
umfaan: "(Among Xhosa-speaking people) a young man who has gone through initiation but is not yet married", From Zulu and Xhosa umfana.
ujamaa: "(In Tanzania) a socialist system of village cooperatives based on equality of opportunity and self-help, established in the 1960s", Kiswahili, literally 'brotherhood', from jamaa 'family', from Arabic jamā‘a 'community'.
yaar: "A friendly form of address", Via Hindi from Arabic yar 'friend'.