different between haitian vs griot

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adjective

haitian

1. accusative singular of haitia

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha.i.ti?an/

Noun

haitian m (plural haitieni, feminine equivalent haitian?)

1. Haitian

Declension

Adjective

haitian m or n (feminine singular haitian?, masculine plural haitieni, feminine and neuter plural haitiene)

1. Haitian

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French griot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???i.o?/

Noun

griot (plural griots)

1. A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
   • 1995, Françoise Pfaff, Sembene, A Griot of Modern Times, in Michael T. Martin (editor), Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality, page 118,

     Griots may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.

   • 1997, Paul Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship, page 15,

     When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots.

     Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the griot.

   • 2003, Melissa Thackway, Interview I: Adama Drabo, director, in Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film, page 183,

     I decided that it would be better for a griot to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. Griots have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, Ta Dona, in the same way that a griot would have.

2. (cooking) A Haitian dish of fried pork.

Translations

Further reading

• griot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Trigo

French

Etymology

From Portuguese criado (“servant”).

Noun

griot m (plural griots)

1. griot (African storyteller)

   Synonym: barde

2. (by extension, derogatory) Someone who tells stories to gullible people.

Further reading

• griot on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr