Vuvuzelaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/ or /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/
• (米国発音) /vuːvuːˈzeɪlə/

名詞

vuvuzela (plural vuvuzelas)

1. A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.
   • 2006 July 15, Weekend Argus:

     When the Manchester United squad walked through the arrival gates at Durban International yesterday, most players heard a vuvuzela for the first time.

   • 2010 June 1, David Pickthall, “Are you ready to make some noise?”, in North-West Evening Mail, UK, retrieved 2 Aug. 2011:

     I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn, which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.

   • 2010 June 8, Jeré Longman, “A Bleating Soundtrack for Soccer”, in The New York Times‎:

     For some, the vuvuzelas herald the country’s piercing emergence from the forced racial hush of apartheid.

同意語

• (trumpet-shaped horn): stadium horn, stadium trumpet

上位語

• (trumpet-shaped horn): noisemaker

派生語

• vuvuzelist