BABOONとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 babewin, baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue (“grimace; muzzle”) (whence French babouin), from an imitative origin.

According to Oxford English Dictionary, it was an imitative base *bab-, which is in turn from the (reduplicated) syllable ba, characteristic of early infantile vocalization (and expressive of the movement of the lips in speech).

French babouin was also borrowed into other European languages. Confer Vulgar Latin babouinus ("a grimace"), Vulgar Latin babuinare ("to paint marginal figures in manuscripts"), Italian babbuino, babuino (“baboon”), Dutch baviaan (“baboon”), German Pavian (“baboon”)

For the sense of infant imitation, see English babble (“to blather”), English babe (“darling”), English baby (“infant”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bəbo͞onʹ, IPA: /bəˈbuːn/,
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌbæˈbuːn/
• 韻: -uːn

名詞

baboon (plural baboons)

1. An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. [from 13th c.]
   • 1971, Philip José Farmer, Down in the Black Gang: and others; a story collection, Nelson Doubleday, page 79:

     Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons. But he was in no position to insult his host, nor should he. The man was only expressing the attitude of his time.

   • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 June 2017, page 162:

     He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.

2. (colloquial, derogatory) A foolish, stupid or incompetent person.
   1. (highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
      • 2021 November, “Romaine Sawyers: Albion fan jailed for racist post loses appeal”, in BBC‎:

        The 50-year-old steel worker said he had meant to type Sawyers should win the "buffoon d'Or". He claimed a misspelling, of "bafoon", had autocorrected on his device to "baboon".

      • 2022 October, René Cornish, Kieran Tranter, “Dismissals for Social Media Hate Speech in South Africa: Animalistic Dehumanisation and the Circulation of Racist Words and Images”, in Springer Nature Link‎:

        Animalistic dehumanisation, 'simianisation' and the animalising of black bodies through metaphorically likening these individuals to 'baboons,' 'monkeys' or 'apes' reveals racialised animality discourse in South Africa.

使用する際の注意点

The collective noun for baboons is troop.

派生語

派生した語

• → Cornish: baboun
• → Hindi: बबून (babūn)
• → Irish: babún
• → Malay: babun
• → Maltese: babun
• → Marathi: बबून (babūn)
• → Persian: بابون (bâbun)
• → Serbo-Croatian: babun
• → Sranan Tongo: babun
• → Turkish: babun
• → Volapük: babun
• → Welsh: babŵn

参考

• chacma (Papio ursinus)
• drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus)
• mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx)
• Appendix:English collective nouns

参照

• “baboon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• baboon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Papio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Papio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons