英和和英

発音

• IPA: /æməˈnɑːt/
• ハイフネーション: a‧ma‧nat

名詞

amanat (plural amanats or amanaty)

1. (historical) A Native American hostage taken by Russian colonists.
   • 1990, Richard A. Pierce, Russian America: A Biographical Dictionary, page xvii:

     Kuznetsov — his Aleut name is unknown — had been given to Russian fur traders as an amanat (hostage).

   • 2002, European Review of Native American Studies:

     According to Davydov (1812, 2:54, 132), the chief of the Ugalakhmiut Eyak specially came to Kodiak for a meeting with his son, who was an amanat among the Russians.

   • 2005, Grinev, The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867, page 260:

     Toion Fedor accepted Orthodoxy in the winter of 1795–96 when he lived at Kodiak as an amanat.