Po Loとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Balti پولو‎ (pulu, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).

名詞

polo (usually uncountable, 複数形 polos)

1. (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
   • 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 227:

     There were polo fields – sometimes green, sometimes brown – where in the old days, people had actually played that strange game that seems like a drunken bet about golf and horse riding.

2. The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
3. (countable) A polo shirt.
   • 2007 February 22, Mike Albo, “Outfitters to Presidents, Preppies, Me”, in New York Times‎^[5]:

     Then on the second floor there is the creepy boy’s section, which had little headless mannequins in premium polos ($39.50), rugby shirts ($49.50) and a precocious leather pilot jacket for $148.

派生語

語源 2

Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

名詞

polo

1. A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

語源 3

Unknown.

名詞

polo (複数形 polos)

1. (Philippines) A dress shirt.

語源 4

From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus

間投詞

polo

1. Alternative letter-case form of Polo

   Coordinate terms: marco, marco polo

Further reading

• polo on Wikipedia.
• “polo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Loop, OOPL, Pool, loop, pool

Latin

名詞

polō

1. dative/ablative singular of polus

参照

• “polo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers