Shikarとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪˈkɑː/

名詞

shikar (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 shikars)

1. (India) Hunting, sport; a hunting expedition.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Miss Youghal's Sais”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2007, page 25:

     Where other men took ten days to the Hills, Strickland took leave for what he called shikar, put on the disguise that appealed to him at the time, stepped down into the brown crowd, and was swallowed up for a while.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 130:

     They climbed up the ladder, and he mounted shikar fashion, treading first on the sharp edge of the heel and then into the looped-up tail.

2. Alternative form of shikari (“a hunter または tracker”) (Can we add an example for this sense?)

関連する語

• shikari

動詞

shikar (三人称単数 現在形 shikars, 現在分詞 shikaring または shikarring, 過去形および過去分詞形 shikared または shikarred)

1. (India, dated, transitive, intransitive) To hunt; to go hunting.

アナグラム

• Harkis, Kishar, Sakhir, Shakir, Shirak, rakhis, rakish, riksha, shikra