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Kui (other)
Kui may refer to: People * Kui people, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority *Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter People with the surname Kui (奎) * Kui Yuanyuan, a Chinese gymnast Places *Kui, Hiroshima, a Japanese town * Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on Kawau Island Astronomy *Kui, or Legs, a Chinese constellation *Eta Andromedae, a star with the proper name Kui *KUI is used to designate double stars discovered by Gerard Kuiper, including: ** KUI 91AB, a variable star of Delta Cephei type ** KUI 93AB, an eclipsing binary of Algol variable type Other uses * Kui (Chinese mythology) 夔, a one-legged mountain demon, also legendary inventor of music and dance * Kui (dragonball), a manga character * Kui (music), comes from Kazakh language * Kui (Māori mythology), a chthonic Māori demigod, also father of Vahi-vero in Tuamotu mythology * Kui kuningas nutab, a 1997 song by Terminaator *Kui language (India), a Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds *Kui language (Indonesia) Kui is a T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui People
The Kuy (, ) are an indigenous ethnic group of mainland Southeast Asia. The native lands of the Kuy range from the southern Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand east to the banks of the Mekong River in southern Laos and south to north central Cambodia. The Kuy are an ethnic minority in all three countries, where they live as "hill tribes" or Montagnards. Their language is classified as a Katuic language of the Mon-Khmer language family. The Thais, Lao, and Khmer traditionally recognize the Kuy as the aboriginal inhabitants of the region. The word ''kuy'' in the Kuy language means "people" or "human being"; alternate English spellings include Kui, Kuoy and Kuay, while forms similar to "Suay" or "Suei" are derived from the Thai/Lao exonyms meaning "those who pay tribute". The Kuy are known as skilled mahouts, or elephant trainers, and many Kuy villages are employed in finding, taming, and selling elephants. Kuy people occupied the region west of the Mekong and northeast of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KUI 93AB
QS Aquilae is a triple or quadruple star system consisting of an eclipsing binary in a 2.5 day orbit around which a third star orbits in 77 years. There is some indication that there is a fourth component with a period of roughly 18 years. Located in the constellation Aquila, its visual magnitude varies from 5.93 to 6.06, making it barely visible to the naked eye. The star's variability was discovered photometrically by Paul Guthnick and Richard Prager in 1930. It was given its variable star designation In astronomy, a variable-star designation is a unique identifier given to variable stars. It extends the Bayer designation format, with an identifying label (as described below) preceding the Latin genitive of the name of the constellation in whic ... in 1934. References Aquila (constellation) 185936 Spectroscopic binaries Algol variables Eclipsing binaries Aquilae, QS 7846 B-type main-sequence stars 096840 Durchmusterung objects {{var-star-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui The Horseclaw
Kui may refer to: People *Kui people, a Mon-Khmer ethnic minority *Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter People with the surname Kui (奎) *Kui Yuanyuan, a Chinese gymnast Places *Kui, Hiroshima, a Japanese town * Kawau Island Airport, IATA code KUI, on Kawau Island Astronomy *Kui, or Legs, a Chinese constellation *Eta Andromedae, a star with the proper name Kui *KUI is used to designate double stars discovered by Gerard Kuiper, including: ** KUI 91AB, a variable star of Delta Cephei type **KUI 93AB, an eclipsing binary of Algol variable type Other uses *Kui (Chinese mythology) 夔, a one-legged mountain demon, also legendary inventor of music and dance * Kui (dragonball), a manga character * Kui (music), comes from Kazakh language * Kui (Māori mythology), a chthonic Māori demigod, also father of Vahi-vero in Tuamotu mythology * Kui kuningas nutab, a 1997 song by Terminaator *Kui language (India), a Dravidian language spoken by the Khonds *Kui language (Indonesia) Kui is a Timor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui Language (Indonesia)
Kui is a Timor–Alor–Pantar language spoken in several enclaves on Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, .... The language is called 'Masin lak' in Kui. Although the exact number of speakers is unknown, Kui is an endangered language since speakers are shifting to Alor Malay. Kui is mainly spoken in the towns of Moru, Bouraga and Lerabarang. Kirramung and Kui have some sort of dialect relationship, being considered by some as being the same language and some others as being two different languages. This is typical of Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) languages. It has verb-final word order which means that the verb comes last in a sentence, unlike in English where the verb usually comes in the middle. Phonology Consonants Consonant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui Language (India)
Kui (also Kandha, Khondi, Khond, Khondo, Kanda, Kodu (Kōdu), Kodulu, Kuinga (Kūinga), Kuy) is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Kandhas, eastern Indian state of Odisha. It is mostly spoken in Odisha, and written in the Odia script The Odia script (, also ) is a Brahmic script used to write the Odia language. To a lesser extent, it is also used to write Sanskrit and other regional languages. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. The script has deve .... With 941,988 registered native speakers, it figures at rank 29 in the 1991 Indian census. The Kui language was also referred to as the Kuinga language during the historical period. It is closely related to the Gondi and Kuvi languages. Phonology Vowels Kui language has five short vowels and five long vowels. The vowels are illustrated below in IPA. References External links Kui basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database* Agglutinative languages Dravidi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui Kuningas Nutab
Terminaator () is an Estonian rock group formed in 1987 by Arno Veimer and Jaagup Kreem in Tallinn 10. High School (today known as Nõmme Gymnasium). Kreem was in the 7th grade then. The first public performance was in Tallinn 47. High School in the schoolbands' festival. The first time in the studio was in 1989. First songs "Charleen" and "Meeletu maailm" were recorded in 1991. They found wider fame in 1992, when they won the festival of young bands Rock In. They have also performed in Latvia, Lithuania and Finland, although they have not had much success outside of Estonia. On the Estonian television show "7 vaprat", Terminaator have appeared playing their songs "Ainult sina võid mu maailma muuta", "Juulikuu lumi", "See ei ole saladus", and "Portselanist tüdruk". 2005–2008 2005 saw the release of the band's first live album, ''Go Live 2005'', which was followed in 2006 by Terminaator's 7th studio album ''Nagu esimene kord''. In the same year, Terminaator participated in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui (Māori Mythology)
Kui was a chthonic demigoddess and the wife of Tuputupuwhenua in Māori mythology. They supposedly live underground and when a new house is built, a tuft of grass is offered to them. Kui is also the name of the father of Vahi-vero and the grandfather of Rata in the Tuamotu The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands (, officially ) are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 islands and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean. They constitute the largest chain of atolls in the world, extending (from northwest to ... islands. References * Polynesian goddesses Māori mythology {{deity-stub Underworld goddesses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui (music)
Kui is a Kipchak instrumental musical composition performed with national plucked, bow and wind instruments such as dombyra, qobyz, syrnai, mostly with the plucked dombyra of the Kazakhs and Komuz of the Kyrgyzs. In the 20th century, Kazakh Soviet musicians experimented with chorus performance of kuis. Kui in Kazakh culture performed with dombyra In Kazakh culture kuis were learned by heart and passed from generation to generation without written fixation. For example, Kazakh folk Kui “aqsaq qulan” (lame onager) is dated to the 13th century. Authors of many Kazakh kuis lived in the Middle Ages. But the pick of the culture is from the 19th and 20th centuries. Kui tradition included also verbal part that explained in detail the story for its compositions, personalities, reasons and legends. Before performing the kui, the performer used to give a story about the composition to play, so the auditory could get proper feelings. But by the time the verbal tradition for kuis was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kui (dragonball)
''Dragon Ball'' is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, ''Dr. Slump''. While many of the characters are humans with superhuman strengths or supernatural abilities, the cast also includes anthropomorphic animals, extraterrestrial lifeforms, and deities who govern the world and the universe. During the course of the story, protagonist Son Goku is adopted by Grandpa Son Gohan and encounters allies like Bulma, Master Roshi, and Trunks; rivals such as Tien Shinhan, Piccolo, and Vegeta; and villains such as Frieza, Cell, and Majin Buu. Goku's group of associates, known as the , bolsters its ranks throughout the series with the addition of former enemies and new heroes. The group is also known in Japanese as the or Team "Z" in other media, and the Earth's Special Forces in the English dub of ''Dragon Ball Z''. Dragon Ball characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
