Douglaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Dogla, Dugla

語源

Borrowed from Caribbean Hindustani dugalaa (“many, much, a mix”), cf. Hindi दोगला (doglā, “mixed blood, crossbreed, mixed breed, mixed race, illegitimate, hybrid, half-caste”).

名詞

Dougla (plural Douglas)

1. (Caribbean) A Caribbean person of mixed African and Indian descent.
   • 2002, Yasurō Hase, Hiroyuki Miyake, Fumiko Oshikawa, South Asian migration in comparative perspective, movement, settlement and diaspora:

     But the dilemmas facing douglas and their parents are often different: being born dougla is not the same as choosing intermarriage and bearing a dougla. Parents are not often douglas themselves.

派生語

• douglarisation, douglarization

参照

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दोगला”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

アナグラム

• Dougal