chanate

plural chanates

1. a kind of bird

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

   2017, Tom Lea, The Wonderful Country

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   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.

   1989 [1974–1795], Ignaz Pfefferkorn, translated by Theodore E. Treutlein, Sonora: A Description of the Province, translation of original in German, page 122

   1. great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
   2. red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)

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

      2003, Rigoberto González, Crossing Vines: A Novel, page 67

2. derogatoryslangblack person

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

   2012, Santana Acuña, Saul Diskin, Santana and Saúl: A Dual Memoir, page 8

3. slangcoffee

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

   2011 November 12, Chris Hoke, quoting Neaners, “Sacrament of Tears: Note from Solitary Confinement -- by Neaners”, in Clarion: Journal of Spirituality and Justice, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2019

1. uncountablea kind of tree (Colophospermum mopane)

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

   2010, Jonathan Timberlake, Emmanuel Chidumayo, Louis Sawadogo, “Distribution and Characteristics of African Dry Forests and Woodlands”, in Emmanuel N. Chidumayo, Davison J Gumbo, editors, The Dry Forests and Woodlands of Africa: Managing for Products and Services, pages 20–21

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   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

   2015 March 20, Andrea Dijkstra, “Mozambique will be stripped of its forests 'in just a few years'”, in Mail & Guardian

   Synonyms: mopane

plural chanates

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of khanate.

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

   1824 February, “An account of the Calmucs”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, volume 17, page 139

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   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.

   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, numbers 27-33

   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.

   1892, “Hunza, Nagyr, and the Pamir Regions”, in The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, page 66