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Sri Suryaraya Andhra Nighantuvu is a Telugu language dictionary. It is the most comprehensive monolingual Telugu dictionary. [1] It was published in eight volumes between 1936 and 1974. [2] [3] It was named after Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau, the zamindar of Pitapuram Estate who sponsored the first four volumes of the dictionary. [4] [5]
The origins of the word pickaninny (and its alternative spellings picaninny and piccaninny) are disputed; it may derive from the Portuguese term for a small child, pequenino, meaning "tiny". [3] The term was apparently used in the seventeenth century by slaves in the West Indies to affectionately refer to a child of any race. [4]
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Around the world, refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and internally displaced persons have been the victims of racial discrimination, racist attacks, xenophobia and ethnic and religious intolerance. [10] According to the Human Right Watch, "racism is both a cause and a product of forced displacement, and an obstacle to its solution." [10]
The revised Oxford English Dictionary cites the shorter term "racism" in a quote from the year 1903. [20] It was defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd edition 1989) as "[t]he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race"; the same dictionary termed racism a synonym of racialism : "belief in the ...
It is generally understood that the term comes from the Hindi and Telugu word kulī (कुली), (కూలి), meaning "day-labourer", which is probably associated with the Urdu word quli (قلی), meaning "slave". [9] [2] The Urdu word is thought to come from the Tamil word kulī ("hire" or "hireling"). [3]
Pleco allows different ways of input, including Pinyin input method, English words, handwriting recognition and optical character recognition. [2] [3] It has many sets of dictionaries (including the Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, and Ricci), audio recordings from two different native speakers, flashcards functionality, and a document reader that can look up words in a document. [4]
Sambo came into the English language from zambo, the Spanish word in Latin America for a person of South American negro, mixed European, and native descent. [3] This in turn may have come from one of three African language sources. Webster's Third International Dictionary holds that it may have come from the Kongo word nzambu ('monkey').