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Definition: Nubian |
NubianNoun1. A native or inhabitant of Nubia; "Nubians now form an ethnic minority in Egypt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Nubian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nubia is the region south of Egypt along the Nile, in northern Sudan.
Its people spoke at least two varieties of the Nubian language group, a Nilo-Saharan subfamily which includes Nobiin, Kenuzi-Dongola, Midob and several related varieties in the northern part of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. A variety - Birgid was spoken (at least until 1970) north of Nyala in Darfur but is now extinct. Old Nubian was used in mostly religious texts dating from the 8th and 9th centuries AD. It is considered ancestral to modern day Nobiin.
History
In ancient times Nubia was a kingdom closely associated with Ancient Egypt, and occasionally conquered by their more powerful northern neighbours. Nubia adopted many Egyptian practices such as their religion and the practice of building pyramids. The kingdom of Nubia survived longer than that of Egypt and was never annexed by the Romans. The Nubians did trade with the Romans, and were also a source of mercenaries.In later Roman times, Nubia was divided into three kingdoms: northernmost was Nobatia between the first and second cataract of the Nile River, with its capital at Pachoras (modern day Faras); in the middle was Makuria, with its capital at (Old) Dongola; and southernmost was Aloda, with its capital at Soba (near Khartoum). King Silko of Nobatia crushed the Blemmyes, and recorded his victory in a Greek inscription carved in the wall of the temple of Talmis (modern Kalabsha) around AD 500.
While bishop Athanasius of Alexandria consecrated one Marcus as bishop of Philae before his death in 373, showing that Christianity had peentrated the region by the fourth century, John of Ephesus records that a Monophysite priest named Julian converted the king and his nobles of Nobatia around 545. John of Ephesus also writes that the kingdom of Alodia was converted around 569. However, John of Bisclorum records that the kingdom of Makuria was converted to Roman Catholicism the same year, suggesting that John of Ephesus might be mistaken. Further doubt is cast on John's testimony by an entry in the chronicle of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Eutychius, which states that in 719 the church of Nubia transferred its allegiance from the Greek Orthodox to the Coptic Church.
Christianity eventually faded from Nubia. While there are records of a bishop at Qasr Ibrim in 1372, his see had come to include that located at Faras. It is also clear that the "Royal" church at Dongola had been converted to a mosque around 1350.
Many Nubians were forcibly resettled to make room for Lake Nasser after the construction of the dams at Aswan. Nubian villages can now be found north of Aswan on the west bank of the Nile and on Elephantine Island, and many Nubians live in large cities such as Cairo.
External link
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Crosswords: Nubian |
| English words defined with "Nubian": endlessly ♦ without end. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nubian" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Albanian (nubian). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Secret of the Nubian Tomb (1961) Nubian Goddess (1997) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Nubian boys shooting the rapids of the Nile on logs, Egypt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Nubian servants & horses. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Egypt | Ethnic groups: Egyptian, Bedouin Arab, Nubian. (references) |
Sudan | Most of the 22 million Sudanese who live in this region are Arabic speaking Muslims, though the majority also use a traditional non-Arabic mother tongue (i.e., Nubian, Beja, Fur, Nuban, Ingessana, etc.) Among these are several distinct tribal groups; the Kababish of northern Kordofan, a camel-raising people; the Ja'alin and Shaigiyya groups of settled tribes along the rivers; the seminomadic Baggara or Kordofan and Darfur; the Hamitic Beja in the Red Sea area and Nubians of the northern Nile areas, some of whom have been resettled on the Atbara River; and the Negroid Nuba of southern Kordofan and Fur in the western reaches of the country. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Nubian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.00% of the time. "Nubian" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 76% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Nubian": nubian Desert. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Nubian": anglo-nubian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
nubian | 231 | beauty nubian | 12 |
nubian goat | 140 | nubian booty | 12 |
nubian sluts | 116 | nubian nude | 11 |
brand nubian | 70 | les nubian | 11 |
nubian dairy goat | 37 | gents nubian | 11 |
nubian princess | 30 | dance hut nubian | 11 |
heritage nubian | 26 | goat nubian picture | 10 |
model nubian | 24 | goat nubian sale | 10 |
house nubian | 23 | nubian ass | 9 |
movie nubian | 20 | babe nubian | 9 |
nubian queens | 19 | nubian porn | 8 |
nubian woman | 18 | nubian pyramid | 8 |
nubian video | 16 | nubian slut | 8 |
nubian sex | 14 | ibex nubian | 7 |
nubian goddess | 13 | nubian teaze | 7 |
nubian pussy | 13 | lock nubian | 7 |
girl nubian | 13 | king nubian | 7 |
nubian queen | 12 | nubian poet | 7 |
nubian stripper | 12 | entertainment nubian | 6 |
man nubian | 12 | nubian prince | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Nubian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nubian. (various references) | |
Dutch | Nubisch. (various references) | |
Esperanto | nubiano, nubia. (various references) | |
French | pic de Nubie (campethera nubica, nubian woodpecker), Equus africanus (Nubian wild ass), campethera nubica (campethera nubica, nubian woodpecker), âne sauvage de l'Afrique (Nubian wild ass). (various references) | |
German | nubisch, nubierin, nubier. (various references) | |
Greek | όνος των στεππών (Nubian wild ass), όνος ο αφρικανικός (Nubian wild ass), νουβιοτσικλιτάρα (campethera nubica, nubian woodpecker), νουβιοδρυοκολάπτης (campethera nubica, nubian woodpecker), campethera nubica (campethera nubica, nubian woodpecker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | núbiai. (various references) | |
Italian | succiacapre di Numidia (Nubian nightjar), picchio di Nubia (campethera nubica, nubian woodpecker), campethera nubica (campethera nubica, nubian woodpecker), asino selvatico africano (Nubian wild ass). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubiannay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | núbio. (various references) | |
Russian | нубийский, нубиец. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nubijski, nubijac. (various references) | |
Swedish | nubisk. (various references) | |
Thai | ชาว Nubian. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нубі"ць, нубійський, нубійка, нуба. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Equus asinus africanus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Nubian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nabaa, Nebiu, Neblina, Nesbyen, Neubau, Ngbaka, Nibbio, Nobeyana, Nobriga, Nubern, nubial, Numia, Nurina, Nuvin, Tubiana. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Nubian" (pronounced 'Nu"bi*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-n-n-u" | |
-1 letter: nubia, unban. | |
-2 letters: bani, bunn, unai. | |
-3 letters: ain, ani, ban, bin, bun, inn, nab, nan, nib, nub, nun. | |
-4 letters: ab, ai, an, ba, bi, in, na, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-n-n-u" | |
+2 letters: biannual, inurbane. | |
+3 letters: abounding, antiurban, connubial, incunable, unbanning, unbarring, unbearing, unbracing, unbraking. | |
+4 letters: antibusing, banqueting, biannually, enunciable, husbanding, incubating, incubation, incunables, incunabula, interurban, intubating, intubation, nudibranch, subpenaing, sunbathing, unbraiding, undeniable, undeniably, unenviable, unfindable, unsinkable, unwinnable, urbanising, urbanizing. | |
+5 letters: bankrupting, barquentine, baserunning, bushranging, businessman, concubinage, connubially, conurbation, incubations, incunabulum, infundibula, innumerable, innumerably, interurbans, intubations, landlubbing, nudibranchs, subdominant, submarining, subnational, subornation, subpoenaing, unalienable, unbalancing, unbandaging, unbrilliant, undefinable, undrinkable, unignorable, uninhabited, uninsurable, unprintable, unthinkable, unthinkably. | |
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