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Cushite, a. and n.|ˈkʌʃaɪt|
Also Kushite.
[f. Cush, name of an ancient country in the Nile valley + -ite.]
A. adj. Pertaining or relating to an ancient people of eastern Africa, south of Egypt.B. n. A member of this people; a sub-family of the Afro-Asian family of languages; also called Cushitic, Kushitic |kʌˈʃɪtɪk|.
1836N. Morren tr. Rosenmüller's Bibl. Geogr. Central Asia I. ii. 80 A Cushite was the same as ‘a man of colour’. Ibid. 82 Each nation placed its Cushites or æthiopians to the south..as known to them. 1846Cycl. Bibl. Lit. I. 503/1 The name Cush was applied to tracts of country both in Arabia and Africa —..on the very probable supposition that the descendants of the primitive Cushite tribes, who had settled in the former country, emigrated across the Red Sea to the latter region of the earth. Ibid. 504/1 Part of the Cushite population immigrated to Africa. 1883R. N. Cust Sk. Mod. Lang. Africa I. 126 Lepsius recognizes them as the modern representatives of the Kushites of the Old Testament, the Ethiopians of Herodotus. 1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 894/1 All these Cushitic languages, extending from Egypt to the equator, are separated by Reinisch as Lower Cushitic from the High Cushitic group, i.e. the many dialects spoken by tribes dwelling in the Abyssinian highlands. 1933Bloomfield Language iv. 67 The fourth branch of Semitic-Hamitic is Cushite, south of Egypt; it includes a number of languages, among them Somali and Galla. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 366 The Kushitic sub-division occupies part of the western coast of the Red Sea. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 117 Kushitic, a branch of the Hamitic sub-family of the Semito-Hamitic family of languages; it consists of a great many vernaculars, the principal ones being Somali and Galla. 1961A. J. Arkell in R. Oliver Dawn Afr. Hist. 10 The Cushites clashed with..Assyria. Ibid., The pharaoh sacked the old Cushite capital of Napata. 1970New Eng. Bible Jeremiah xxxviii. 7 Ebedmelech the Cushite, a eunuch. |
