Athabaskan people and language, 1780, from Spanish Apaches de Nabaju (1629), from Tewa (Tanoan) Navahu, said to mean literally "large field" or "large planted field," containing nava "field" and hu "valley." Spanish Navajo was used 17c. in reference to the area now in northwestern New Mexico.
雙語例句
1. The Navajo are noted as stockbreeders and skilled weavers, potters, and silversmiths.
納瓦霍人以豢養(yǎng)家禽, 技術熟練的紡織者, 制陶者和銀匠而著名.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Such cross - cultural conflicts are intensified by textbooks that bear little relation to Navajo life or values.
那些與那伐鶴人的生活和價值觀念幾乎毫無聯(lián)系的教課書,使這種不同文化的沖突趨于激化.
來自辭典例句
3. Why not buy navajo art created by actual navajos?
為什么不買個真納瓦霍族人造出來的作品?
來自電影對白
4. Navajo has three or four ways of expressing the passive.
那瓦霍語則有三或四種方式來表達過去時態(tài).
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. Navajo remained potentially valuable as code even after the war.