翻訳と辞書
Words near each other
・ "O" Is for Outlaw
・ "O"-Jung.Ban.Hap.
・ "Ode-to-Napoleon" hexachord
・ "Oh Yeah!" Live
・ "Our Contemporary" regional art exhibition (Leningrad, 1975)
・ "P" Is for Peril
・ "Pimpernel" Smith
・ "Polish death camp" controversy
・ "Pro knigi" ("About books")
・ "Prosopa" Greek Television Awards
・ "Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen
・ "Q" Is for Quarry
・ "R" Is for Ricochet
・ "R" The King (2016 film)
・ "Rags" Ragland
・ ! (album)
・ ! (disambiguation)
・ !!
・ !!!
・ !!! (album)
・ !!Destroy-Oh-Boy!!
・ !Action Pact!
・ !Arriba! La Pachanga
・ !Hero
・ !Hero (album)
・ !Kung language
・ !Oka Tokat
・ !PAUS3
・ !T.O.O.H.!
・ !Women Art Revolution


Dictionary Lists
翻訳と辞書 辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ]
スポンサード リンク

Obroni : ウィキペディア英語版
Oburoni
Oburoni (or Obroni) is the Akan (or more specifically, the Twi language) word for western white foreigner, literally meaning "a person from beyond the horizon". It is often colloquially translated into "white person" or "white man". Due to this, English-speakers often construe the word as derogatory because the meaning of the word is actually contested.
Some say that the word "oburoni" derives from the word "buro" which means "from beyond the horizon" and "ni" which means "person". The plural form of "oburoni" is "aburofoɔ" ("foɔ" is the plural form of "ni") which is often used to refer to the English language or English people.
Others say that despite the (relatively) widespread and casual use of the word, its origins are not entirely benign. The word "obroni" derives from the word "Abro fuo", which means trickster, "one who frustrates" or "one who cannot be trusted". It is possible that the word arose during initial contact between the Ashanti and Europeans. This interpretation is supported when compared to the word used for "white person" in other Ghanaian languages such as Ga (another tribe in Ghana) Blofonyo (or Blofo) for short which similarly derives from "Ablo fo nyo" and means "one who kills"; the Ewe call the european “Ayivu” which means “tricky dog” and the hausa use the word "baturi" meaning
West Africa does not have an equivalent of the ubiquitous ‘mzungu’, used throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, and even within Ghana, Obroni predominates because it is common to the predominant local languages, those of Akan family, primarily Ashanti Twi, Akuapem Twi and Fante. Other Akan languages employ variants on Obroni: For example Western Ghana, uses the term ‘Brofo’ or ‘Brofwe’.
Related
In Central and West Africa the name for a person of European descent is ''Toubab''.
In Nigeria, the word used for a 'white' person is ''Oyibo''.
==See also==

*Akan language
*Akan languages


抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)
ウィキペディアで「Oburoni」の詳細全文を読む



スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース

Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.