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名詞

kula (plural kulas)

1. A tower, turret or steeple in Southeast Europe erected during the period of Ottoman domination on the area.
   • 1867, Georgina Mary Muir Mackenzie, Lady Georgina Mary Muir Sebright, Mackenzie Sebright, Adeline Paulina Irby, Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe, pages 107–108:

     Instead of the haïdooks, their next of kin, the zaptiés now hold a kula on the highest point of the pass; here one pauses to rest after scrambling up the vile Turkish road on one side of the ravine, and before scrambling down the vile Turkish road on the other.

   • 1998, Adil Zulfikarpašić, Milovan Djilas, Nadežda Gaće, The Bosniak, page 5:

     The most important kulas of the Čengić-begs are those in Zagorje, in Rataji and the River Odžak near Ustikolina.

   • 1998, Miranda Vickers, Between Serb and Albanian, page 111:

     The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', i.e. adult men ready to fight.

語源 2

From a Melanesian language.

名詞

kula (uncountable)

1. A ceremonial exchange system conducted in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea, involving the exchange of bracelets and necklaces, and linked to political authority.

参照

Further reading

• tower houses in the Balkans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kula ring on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Kalu, Luka, lauk