hui (plural huis)
(New Zealand) A Māori social gathering or assembly.
• UHI
Hui pl (plural only)
An ethnic group of China, distinguished by their practice of Islam, who speak Mandarin (or Dungan in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia).
Hui
A Chinese lect spoken in Southern Anhui and neighbouring Zhejiang and Jiangxi.
• UHI
Source: Wiktionary
17 November 2024
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
