Kumaraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈkuːməɹə/
  • IPA: (New Zealand) [ˈkʰʉːm(ə)ɹʷɐ], (prescribed) [ˈkʰʉːmɐɾɐ]

名詞

kumara (plural kumaras or kumara)

1. (New Zealand) The sweet potato. [from 18th c.]
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 98:

     They introduced the gourd, taro and kumara from the Polynesian Islands to the New Zealanders.

   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 368:

     “And once, a woman threw a piece of cooked kumara at me and I ducked, and laughed…”

   • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 21:

     In contrast to everything else that these migrant people had lugged from island to island, the kūmara had not come from the west.

派生語

• suck the kumara

アナグラム

• karamu