Jerrycanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌkæn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkæn/

名詞

jerrycan (plural jerrycans)

1. A robust container for fuel or water, of a certain more or less rectangular shape, often made from pressed steel.

   Alternative forms: jerican, jerrican, jerry can, jerry-can

   • 1987, Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers, New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, page 46:

     The police fell back, swatting and cursing. At the gateway, somebody grabbed a jerrycan of water from Jonamon's hut and flung its contents at the swarm.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 259:

     Anyone with half a brain and a jerrycan of fertilizer's got an army.

関連する語

派生した語

• → Dutch: jerrycan
  • → Indonesian: jeriken, jerigen, yeriken (dialectal)
    • → Petjo: djerriegen
    • → Tetum: jérigen
  • → North Moluccan Malay: jergen
• → Finnish: jerrykannu
• → French: jerricane, jerrican
• → Hebrew: ג׳ריקן (jerikan)
• → Japanese: ジェリカン (jerikan)
• → Korean: 제리캔 (jerikaen)
• → Kurtöp: ཇར་ཀན (jarkan), ཇར་ཀིན (jarkin)
• → Norwegian: jerrykanne
• → Tetum: jerikán

参照

Further reading

• jerrycan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia