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語源

From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”). Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿 / 苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).

発音

• (Philippines) IPA: /sʊˈlu/

固有名詞

Sulu

1. A province of Mindanao, Philippines. Capital: Jolo & Patikul.
2. Sulu Archipelago (an archipelago of Mindanao, Philippines)
3. (historical) the Sultanate of Sulu
4. (dated) Tausug language

派生語

名詞

Sulu (plural Sulus or Sulu)

1. A member of a prominent Moro tribe, occupying the Sulu Archipelago.
   • 1908, George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl, →ISBN, page 216:

     That is the reason why the Sulu people have the right, and that they came to make the dredge (badja) to get the mother-of-pearl shell from the deep, because they can not see them.

   • 1921, Ignacio Villamor, Felipe Buencamino, Census of the Philippine Islands - Volume II, page 950:

     At the present time there are but few remains on the Island of Jolo of the past glory and civilization of the Sulu people.

   • 1970, Leigh R. Wright, The Origins of British Borneo, page 34:

     If the Spaniards merely meant to subjugate the Sulu, suppressing piracy and lawlessness on the way and no more, they would have been applauded in many quarters.

参照

• “Sulu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• ulus