Meaning of chanate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a kind of bird
2. a kind of tree (Colophospermum mopane)
   uncountable
3. Obsolete spelling of khanate.
   alt-of, obsolete
4. great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
5. red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
6. black person
   derogatory, slang
7. coffee
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The farmer will hardly have sowed his wheat and maize fields when whole flocks of hungry chanates descend upon the land, scratch out the seeds, and eat them.”

“The black chanate birds were gathered, fluting their jangled morning songs under the pomegranates and figs as martin walked from the house.”

““A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. [...] “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,””

“Pelaquillo's older brother was there. We called him Chanate, the name of a little black bird, because he was so dark.”

“I’m sippin’ on some chanate [coffee] right now.”

“The dominant tree, often to the exclusion of many others, is Colophospermum mopane, commonly known as mopane or chanate.”

“The Chinese sell the rare exotic hardwood trees such as chanate, ebony, monzo (leadwood), panga panga, pau preto and wenge for a hundred times as much back in their home country”

“Gengis-Chan and Batuj spread terror over Europe. At a subsequent period this people separated into several Chanates.”

“You are aware that almost all the Armenians residing in the different chanates of Azerbijan, and all the Greeks in the neighbourhood of the town of Ormi, a short time after our troops had occupied Tabreez, proclaimed their willingness to emigrate; that they terefore, during my stay at Deichagan, sent thither deputies, in order to receive permission to this effect.”

“Slavery on the Pamir is flourishing: moreover, the principal contingents of slaves are obtained from Chatrar, Jasen, and Kanshoot, chanates under the protectorate of England.”

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