英和和英

間投詞

dohai

1. (India) A traditional cry for justice or the redressing of a wrong.
   • 1990, Khushwant Singh, Delhi (page 260)

     'Dohai! Dohai!' they screamed. 'They've killed our men, we want justice. Hang these foreigners or hand them over to us.'

   • 1893, Macmillan's Magazine (volume 67, page 153)

     She flung her hands up to heaven, and her young voice rose in the traditional cry for justice. 'Dohai! Dohai!'

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell, William Crooke, editor (1903), “dohai”, in Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive, London: John Murray, […]. (there spelled doai, dwye)