arango

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rough carnelian bead, formerly used in Africa as currency when buying slaves for the slave trade.
    — There we purchased two sheep, one for two strings of arangoes, for the other I gave a note upon Mr. Walker for a bar of salt.

词形变化

arangos plural arangoes plural rango alternative

词源

Rango is the earlier form, attested from 1644. From Malagasy rango (“long and thin”).
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