chanate
English

A male great-tailed grackle in Arizona, United States.

A male red-winged blackbird in British Columbia, Canada.
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish chanate, from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl tzanatl (“great-tailed grackle”).
Noun
chanate (plural chanates)
- a kind of bird
- 1989, Ignaz Pfefferkorn, Sonora: A Description of the Province, translation of original by Theodore E. Treutlein, page 122:
- 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.
- 2017, Tom Lea, The Wonderful Country:
- The black chanate birds were gathered, fluting their jangled morning songs under the pomegranates and figs as martin walked from the house.
- great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
- red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
- 2003, González, Rigoberto, Crossing Vines: A Novel, page 67:
- “A chanate has come to pay us a visit,” doña Gertrudis said. [...] “It’s a black bird with red shoulders,”
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- (Chicano, prison slang, derogatory) black person
- 2012, Santana Acuña, Saul Diskin, Santana and Saúl: A Dual Memoir, page 8:
- Pelaquillo's older brother was there. We called him Chanate, the name of a little black bird, because he was so dark.
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- (Chicano, prison slang) coffee
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Portuguese chanate, from an indigenous language of Mozambique. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
chanate (uncountable)
- a kind of tree (Colophospermum mopane)
- 2010, Timberlake, Jonathan; Chidumayo, Emmanuel; Sawadogo, Louis, “Distribution and Characteristics of African Dry Forests and Woodlands”, in Chidumayo, Emmanuel N.; Gumbo, Davison J, editors, The Dry Forests and Woodlands of AFrica: Managing for Products and Services, pages 20–21:
- The dominant tree, often to the exclusion of many others, is Colophospermum mopane, commonly known as mopane or chanate.
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Synonyms
Noun
chanate (plural chanates)
- Obsolete spelling of khanate
- 1824 February, “An account of the Calmucs”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, volume 17, page 139:
- Gengis-Chan and Batuj spread terror over Europe. At a subsequent period this people separated into several Chanates.
- 1836, “Instructions of General Paskewitch Erivanski to Colonel Lazarew; February 26 1828”, in The Portfolio: A Collection of State Papers and Other Documents and Correspondance, Historical, Diplomatic and Commercial, volume 4, number 27-33:
- 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.
- 1892, “Hunza, Nagyr, and the Pamir Regions”, in The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, page 66:
- 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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Portuguese
Etymology
From an indigenous language of Mozambique. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl tzanatl. A doublet of zanate.
Noun
chanate m (plural chanates)
- (Mexico) great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
- (Mexico, US) red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
- (US, prison slang, derogatory) black person
- (US, prison slang) coffee
Derived terms
- ojo de chanate
References
- Cardozo-Freeman, Inez (1995), “The lingo of the pintos”, in Bilingual Review/La revista bilingüe, volume 20, issue 1, pages 3–21
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