abeng
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Jamaican Creole abeng,[1] from Akan abɛŋ (“animal horn; wind instrument”) (Twi).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbɛŋ/, /æ-/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɛŋ/, /æ-/
- (Caribbean) IPA(key): /æˈbɛŋ/, /ˈæbɛŋ/
Noun
[edit]abeng (plural abengs)
- (Jamaica, music) An animal (usually bull) horn used by the Maroon people of Jamaica as a musical instrument; and also (historical) formerly by slaveholders to summon slaves to canefields and by the Maroon army to communicate cryptic messages over great distances.
Hypernyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]animal horn used by the Maroon people of Jamaica as a musical instrument, etc.
References
[edit]- ^ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), “abeng (horn), n”, in Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 5, column 2; F[rederic] G[omes] Cassidy and R[obert] B[rock] Le Page, editors (2002), “ABENG, sb dial”, in Dictionary of Jamaican English, 2nd edition, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, →ISBN, page 2, column 2.
- ^ “abeng, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “abeng, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- abeng on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abeng”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
Anagrams
[edit]Jamaican Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abeng (plural abeng dem, quantified abeng)
- (music) An abeng (horn of the Jamaican Maroons).
- 2003, Louise Bennett, Mervyn Morris, Aunty Roachy Seh, →ISBN, page 14:
- Yuh know omuch time dem sen soldiers an militia fi attack Nanny Town an Nanny pop dem? […] She always wear her abeng horn tie pon a string roun her wais […]
- Do you know how often soldiers and militias were sent to attack Nanny Town and Nanny routed them? […] She always wore her abeng on a lanyard around her waist […]
References
[edit]- ^ Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 5.
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